What is the source of the syslog messages? Are you trying to log messages though UDP or local messages?
 
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>>> james.fleet@upbna.com 01/13/03 01:57PM >>>
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to create a syslog server with MySQL and with several
> attempts it does not work. I have attached my configs for the system which
> runs on Linux RH 7.3.
>
>
> This is my syslog-ng.conf file :
>
> #
> # Syslog-ng example configuration file showing all the existing/future
> # features.
> #
> # Copyright (c) 1999 Balazs Scheidler
> # $Id: syslog-ng.conf.demo,v 1.2 1999/11/15 12:30:41 bazsi Exp $
> #
> # Note that some of the keywords do _nothing_, this includes:
> #  mac, authentication, encryption, compress
> #
>
> #options { sync(0); time_reopen(10); log_fifo_size(100); };
>                                     ## Log syslog-ng to mysql database
>                                     ##
>  destination d_mysql {
>     pipe("/tmp/mysql.pipe"
> template ("INSERT INTO logs (host, facility, priority, level, tag, date,
> time, program, msg) VALUES ( '$HOST', '$FACILITY',
>
'$PRIORITY','$LEVEL','$TAG','$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY','$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC','$PROGRAM'
> ,'$MSG' );\n") template-escape(yes));
>                       };
>    log { source(net); destination(d_mysql);
>
>                       };
> #source src {
> #       unix-stream("/dev/log");
> #       udp();
> #       tcp(ip("127.0.0.1") port(1000) mac(allow) authentication(required)
> encrypt(allow));
> #       tcp();
> #       sun-streams("/dev/log" door("/etc/.syslog_door"));
> #       internal();
> #};
> source src { unix-dgram("/etc/log/log"); internal(); };
> source net { udp(); };
>
> #log { source(src); destination(everything); };

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> I also have this script running which says that /tmp/msql.pipe is my fifo
> directory.
>
> But I am still not receiving logs into the database but when I switch it
> will log to messages.
>
>
> -James Fleet -
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> Systems Engineer
> Union Planters Bank
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