thanks for the quick response. i'm using the default contrib/syslog-ng.conf.RedHat source s_sys { file ("/proc/kmsg" log_prefix("kernel: ")); unix-stream ("/dev/log"); internal(); }; /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -d -v Error resolving hostname; host='sysremote' No destination address set; --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Peck, Jonathan <Jonathan.Peck@firstdata.com> wrote:
From: Peck, Jonathan <Jonathan.Peck@firstdata.com> Subject: RE: [syslog-ng] fails if dns error resolve hostname destinationforwarding To: nycfresh@yahoo.com, "Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list" <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 12:29 PM How do you have your sources section configured?
Have you run syslog-ng in debug mode (#syslog-ng -d -v) to see if it is vomiting back any addtl info when it trys to kick off?
-----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of JV Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:23 PM To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Subject: [syslog-ng] fails if dns error resolve hostname destinationforwarding
Tried searching in google and the mailing archives...
I'm on syslog-ng-2.0.9 and it refuses to start if i have a filter like
filter f_11 { level(info..emerg); }; destination d_8 { udp("sysremote" port(514)); }; log { source(s_sys); filter(f_11); destination(d_8); };
and sysremote is not resolvable via my DNS or /etc/hosts
You'd think syslog-ng-2.0.9 would continue to run and do the other filters which is to log locally instead of refusing to run at all. Thats how the builtin syslog works i believe.
This limits our ability to swap out replace syslog with syslog-ng since local logging should not fail just because dns is unreachable ?
Am I missing something. Thanks in advance.
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