Hello,

I am experiencing problems with syslog-ng OSE 3.5.1 reading the configuration file and accepting its global options.  I had problems with 2 global options specified in my syslog-ng.conf file:

@version: 3.5

@include "scl.conf"

options

{

   flush_lines(0);

   time_reopen(10);

   log_fifo_size(1000);

   use_dns(no);

   use_fqdn(yes);

   keep_hostname(no);

   keep_timestamp(yes);

   chain_hostnames(no);

perm(0640);

   owner("root");

   group("root");

   create_dirs(yes);

   dir_perm(0750);

   dir_owner("root");

   dir_group("root");

};

source s_cache

{

   file("/path/to/some/file.txt", flags(no-parse));

};

destination d_network

{

syslog("192.168.1.10" port(1901) transport("tcp"));

};

log

{

   source(s_cache);

   destination(d_network);

};

The time_reopen and log_fifo_size seem to be forced to zero if I try to specify alternate values for them as shown above.  If I do not include them in the configuration file, syslog-ng uses their default values time_reopen=60 and log_fifo_size=10000.

Does anybody know what may be causing this problem?  The log_fifo_size default value is OK but I need a faster time_reopen window and I cannot find a way to specify it.  If I do, syslog-ng forces it to time_reopen=0.  I can tell because I get message like this when it is trying to reconnect:

Syslog connection failed; fd=’8’, server=’AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)’, error=’Connection refused (146)’, time_reopen=’0’

If I remove the time_reopen(10) global option from the syslog-ng.conf file, then I get the following message when syslog-ng it is trying to reconnect:

Syslog connection failed; fd=’8’, server=’AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)’, error=’Connection refused (146)’, time_reopen=’60’

Please let me know if you have any questions for me. 

Thank you for your help.