[syslog-ng] SPAM Re: Two instances of syslog-ng on the same host?

27 Jun 2010

      From: "Patrick H." <syslogng@feystorm.net>
    Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:33:10 -0600

    Yes, that should work just fine. 

Well, ok, then I'm dense.

Here's the config for the proxy:

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# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.conf.gentoo,v 1.5 2005/05/12 05:46:10 mr_bones_ Exp $
#
# Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux
# contributed by Michael Sterrett

# added by jrd 6/24/10
@version: 3.0

options
{ 
    chain_hostnames(no); 
    keep_hostname(yes);

    log_fifo_size(40000);
    flush_lines(10000); 

    stats_freq(43200);  # Stats message every 12 hours
};

source s_node
{
    tcp(max-connections(1000) port(1514) );
};

#source ignore
#{
#    internal();
#};

destination ssp     { tcp ("ssp" port(1514)); };

log { source(s_node); destination(ssp); };
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and here's the config for the main instance:

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@version: 3.0
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.conf.gentoo.3,v 1.1 2010/04/06 02:11:35 mr_bones_ Exp $
#
# Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux

options { 
        chain_hostnames(no); 

        # The default action of syslog-ng is to log a STATS line
        # to the file every 10 minutes.  That's pretty ugly after a while.
        # Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of
        # how many messages syslog-ng missed (0).
        stats_freq(43200); 
};

source src {
    unix-stream("/dev/log" max-connections(256));
    internal();
    file("/proc/kmsg");
};

destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };

# By default messages are logged to tty12...
destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
# ...if you intend to use /dev/console for programs like xconsole
# you can comment out the destination line above that references /dev/tty12
# and uncomment the line below.
#destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); };

log { source(src); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); destination(console_all); };
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When I launch the second instance I still get

 * Starting syslog-ng ...Error binding socket; addr='AF_UNIX(/dev/log)', error='Address already in use (125)'
Error initializing source driver; source='src', id='src#0'
Error initializing message pipeline;

 * Failed to start syslog-ng

This is gentoo, btw.

Further hints?  Thanks in advance....

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[syslog-ng] SPAM Re: Two instances of syslog-ng on the same host?