I tried checking journctld logs.

Running the following command returned: journalctl

Feb 04 12:42:57 f1 systemd[1]: Starting System Logger Daemon "scl" instance...
Feb 04 12:42:57 f1 syslog-ng[9777]: [2020-02-04T12:42:57.093710] Error opening control socket, bind() failed; socket='/var/run/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.ctl', erro
r='No such file or directory (2)'
Feb 04 12:42:57 f1 syslog-ng[9777]: [2020-02-04T12:42:57.098856] Error opening configuration file; filename='--control', error='No such file or directory (2)
'
Feb 04 12:42:57 f1 systemd[1]: [[0;1;39m[[0;1;31m[[0;1;39msyslog-ng@scl.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE[[0m
Feb 04 12:42:57 f1 systemd[1]: [[0;1;39m[[0;1;31m[[0;1;39msyslog-ng@scl.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.[[0m
Feb 04 12:42:57 f1 systemd[1]: [[0;1;31m[[0;1;39m[[0;1;31mFailed to start System Logger Daemon "scl" instance.[[0m
:

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 9:28 PM Abhi Arora <engr.abhiarora@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Is there anything I can to debug it? Any pointer to debug it and find the root cause?
Should I modify my syslog conf file to

source s_src { unix-dgram(); internal();
             file("/proc/kmsg" program_override("kernel"));
};
?
Can you help me more with "bypass journald by making sure /dev/log points to syslog-ng."?

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 1:57 PM Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77@gmail.com> wrote:
But you are using journal source, so it might be related to that.

I am not sure weather you rely on journald or not, but as a workaround you could just use a unix-dgram() source and bypass journald by making sure /dev/log points to syslog-ng.

Journald based logging is pretty slow and unless you have a usecase for it, it might be easier to bypass it completely. Makes the local logging path much simpler.

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 13:23 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk> wrote:
On 04.02.20 13:59, Abhi Arora wrote:
>Continuing my previous email....
>> Can you share your configuration, please?
>I have shared over my last email

well, gmail does not have a good interface to mailing list.
(html mail with very bad plaintext conversion.

>> Are you using system() source?
>I didn't get you. Please elaborate. You mean source code system() library
>function. If that you mean, then no we don't use it.

However I saw there:

   source s_src { systemd_journal(); internal();
                file("/proc/kmsg" program_override("kernel"));
   };

No, you don't use system() source, it looks like:

source s_src {
       system();
...
};

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