In general the standard syslog service provided by the OS vendor needs to be shutdown and disabled before syslog-ng may be used. The reason is that both of these tools use the same port number and whichever tool is started first will lock down the port and not allow the other to start. I don't work with SUSE, but I'm guessing the startup script may be found under /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d/init.d. You may also want to take a look at http://www.syslog.org as they have a few howto/guides on replacing your syslog service with replacements. Rechtorik, Keith wrote:
I am attempting to install syslog-ng on SUSE Linux and having issues starting the service. Port 514 is not listening and I assume it because the syslog-ng service is not starting. Does the syslog service start the syslog-ng service? If not how do I start the service?
Thanks.
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