Hi, Unfortunately , I cannot recreate that issue and now everything seems fine. But, I have a similar issue on an RHEL4 machine . I am trying to configure this as a central server. But the central logging does not seem to work as expected. When I check the 514 port everything seems fine. lsof -i:514 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME syslog-ng 23505 root 3u IPv4 72737 TCP *:514 (LISTEN) syslog-ng 23505 root 9u IPv4 72792 TCP 20.5.68.39:514-> 20.5.68.225:56596 (ESTABLISHED) But, as you suggested, running syslog_ng with "Fedv" options does report some errors. /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/sbin/syslog-ng -Fedv Error binding socket; addr='AF_INET(0.0.0.0:514)', error='Address already in use (98)' Error initializing source driver; source='s_remote', id='s_remote#0' Error initializing message pipeline; I executed the below commadn on the test machine . Please help me fix this. Thanks, Rakesh On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Pal Tamas <folti@balabit.hu> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 06:54:33PM +0530, Rakesh Rajasekharan wrote:
Hi,
I am faced with a rather strange issue with syslog 3.0.7 version. The daemon does not start at all when I try to run it in the central server mode. I though do not get any error messages . But, I noticed that after a reboot of the machine. Everything works fine. Can someone please suggest of any possible areas to check.
Thanks, Rakesh Hi,
We need more information about this. What is your syslog-ng configuration? If your syslog-ng listens on 514/tcp port (the default server port for tcp transport): - Did you disabled the rsh service in /etc/inetd.conf ? By default, it's the service that listens on 514/tcp. - probably if you configured your system to start syslog-ng before starting inetd, syslog-ng acquired the port before inetd could start.
Otherwise, did you tried to run syslog-ng with the -Fedv arguments added from the command line? It won't go to the background, but will display all startup messages it may or may not be able/not configured to write out.
Regards, -- Pal Tamas/Folti folti@balabit.hu
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