[syslog-ng]Duplicate Entries

8 Jul 2001

      I just started running syslog-ng on a Linux box. I have also configured
one of my Solaris 8 servers to send logs to this machine.

I have noticed that I get duplicate log entries sometimes. I can't figure
out why.

For example:

Jul  3 20:32:44 dns-a vinay: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] test
Jul  3 20:32:44 dns-a vinay: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] test
Jul  3 20:32:44 dns-a vinay: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] test
Jul  3 20:32:44 dns-a vinay: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] test

The Solaris 8 box has the following entry in it's syslog.conf:

*.debug				@loghost

This is my syslog-ng.conf:

options {
                sync (0);
                time_reopen (10);
                log_fifo_size (1000);
                long_hostnames (off);
                use_dns (yes);
                use_fqdn (no);
                create_dirs (yes);
                keep_hostname (yes);
        };

source s_sys { unix-stream ("/dev/log"); internal(); };
source external { udp(ip (0.0.0.0) port(514)); };

filter f_filter1 { level(info) and facility(user) or facility(kern) or facility(mail)
                   or facility(daemon) or facility(daemon) or facility(auth) or facility(lpr)
                   or facility(news) or facility(uucp) or facility(cron) or facility(syslog)
                   or facility(ftp) or facility(authpriv) or facility(cron);
                 };

filter f_dns-a { host(dns-a); };
destination d_dns-a { file("/var/log/machine/$YEAR/$MONTH/$HOST.$DAY");};

log { source(external); filter(f_dns-a); destination (d_dns-a); };

- Vinay Bharel <vinay@bharel.com>