-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, i've had a running central loghost server for months on end without any problems. I've noticed however that something seems to have died and i can't pinpoint any changes made to any of the involved systems. After some testing, the central logserver is getting remote messages via stunnel; syslog-ng is logging locally; and if i tell it to put everything into a file, the remote as well as local log entries appear in the file. MySQL seems to be running and that end seems OK. The point of failure seems to be that syslog-ng is no longer putting anything into the named pipe. MySQL is patiently waiting for something to appear there to read; syslog-ng will log to any other destination; but the pipe destination does not seem to be working. How can i observe this process? I can't figure out how to "see" -ng's attempts to log to the pipe destination. The destination definition in question is - ----- # Local MySQL desination destination d_mysql { pipe("/var/run/mysql.pipe" template("INSERT INTO logs (host, facility, priority, level, tag, timestamp, program, msg, seq) VALUES ( '$HOST','$FACILITY','$PRIORITY','$LEVEL','$TAG','$ISODATE','$PROGRAM','$MSG','$SEQ' );\n") template_escape(yes) ); }; - ----- exactly as it has been for months. The log directives are - ----- # Sending everything to the MySQL table... log { source(s_all); destination(d_mysql); }; # ... and send incoming logs there as well. log { source(stunnel); destination(d_mysql); ### destination(df_messages); was testing. }; - ----- As you can see by the commented line above, i had remote logs going to local messages dest: that worked fine. Instant results. Any help would be appreciated, as i'm kind of at a loss. - -- Rob Munsch Solutions For Progress IT www.solutionsforprogress.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFBwmVBvBcJFK6xYURAuJnAJ4lKg+94OhZpOvoLsaYcoSAsKoOcgCeLies XXlL1qf/mXl/262LLXBEelg= =ajlW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----