[syslog-ng] duplicate stats counter?

19 Jan 2006

      I've been getting a constant stream of these messages in my syslog-ng 
log, as much as 70MB worth per day:

Jan 19 13:43:39 i-dl385 syslog-ng[25668]: Duplicate stats counter; 
counter='file(/var/log/logs/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_DAY/$HOST-messages.log)'
Jan 19 13:43:40 i-dl385 syslog-ng[25668]: Duplicate stats counter; 
counter='file(/var/log/logs/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_DAY/$HOST-messages.log)'
Jan 19 13:43:40 i-dl385 syslog-ng[25668]: Duplicate stats counter; 
counter='file(/var/log/logs/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_DAY/$HOST-messages.log)'

What does this mean?  Are stats getting collected properly?  Is there a 
bug in the stats stuff?

Turning on debugging doesn't yield any more useful information...

I'm using syslog-ng 1.9.8.

The relevant portion of syslog-ng.conf looks like this:

source s_external_syslog {
     udp(port(514));
};

source s_internal_syslog {
     unix-dgram("/dev/log");
     file("/proc/kmsg" log_prefix("kernel:"));
};

template t_human_readable {
     template("$R_FULLDATE $HOST $FACILITY.$PRIORITY $MESSAGE\n");
     template-escape(no);
};

destination d_host_messages {
     file(
         "/var/log/logs/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_DAY/$HOST-messages.log"
         template(t_human_readable)
         create_dirs(yes)
         owner(root)
         group(root)
         perm(0644)
         dir_perm(0755)
     );
};

destination d_big_messages {
     file (
         "/var/log/logs/messages.log"
         template(t_human_readable)
         owner(root)
         group(root)
         perm(0644)
     );
};

log {
     source(s_external_syslog);
     source(s_internal_syslog);
     destination(d_big_messages);
     destination(d_host_messages);
};

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