All, I'm fairly new to syslog-ng (been using syslogd for many years) and I have a question with the config file syntax. What I'm trying to do is log all remote hosts to /var/log/$HOST.log while keeping the logging host's logs seperate. What I'm seeing is all messages are being written to /var/log/$HOST.log, including the logging system, as well as to /var/log/messages. In a single day, /var/log/messages grows to over 11GB (I'm logging less than 100 devices - Windows servers, routers, and switches.) I haven't quite figured out which part of the config file is causing this to happen, since I'm still going through my growing pains with it. Can someone point me in the right direction with this? This is running on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, and syslog-ng was installed via ports: root@logmeister [~]# pkg_info | grep syslog-ng syslog-ng-2.0.2 A powerful syslogd replacement In /etc/rc.conf I have the following defined: # We want syslog-ng, not the default syslogd: syslog_ng_enable="YES" syslogd_enable="NO" Here's my syslog-ng.conf file (note that I have the swatch portion at the end commented out. I'll figure that out once I get the important issues ironed out.) ------- Begin syslog-ng.conf ------- # /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf # Modified for logmeister (running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE SMP) # # options # options { long_hostnames(on); sync(0); use_dns(yes);}; # # sources # source src { unix-dgram("/var/run/log"); unix-dgram("/var/run/logpriv" perm(0600)); udp(); internal(); file("/dev/klog"); }; # # destinations # destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); }; destination security { file("/var/log/security"); }; destination authlog { file("/var/log/auth.log"); }; destination maillog { file("/var/log/maillog"); }; destination lpd-errs { file("/var/log/lpd-errs"); }; destination xferlog { file("/var/log/xferlog"); }; destination cron { file("/var/log/cron"); }; destination debuglog { file("/var/log/debug.log"); }; destination consolelog { file("/var/log/console.log"); }; destination all { file("/var/log/all.log"); }; destination newscrit { file("/var/log/news/news.crit"); }; destination newserr { file("/var/log/news/news.err"); }; destination newsnotice { file("/var/log/news/news.notice"); }; destination slip { file("/var/log/slip.log"); }; destination ppp { file("/var/log/ppp.log"); }; destination console { file("/dev/console"); }; destination allusers { usertty("*"); }; #destination loghost { udp("loghost" port(514)); }; # Log all remote hosts to their own file: destination remote { file("/var/log/$HOST.log" owner(root) group(wheel) perm(0644) dir_perm(0700) create_dirs(yes)); }; # # log facility filters # filter f_auth { facility(auth); }; filter f_authpriv { facility(authpriv); }; filter f_not_authpriv { not facility(authpriv); }; filter f_console { facility(console); }; filter f_cron { facility(cron); }; filter f_daemon { facility(daemon); }; filter f_ftp { facility(ftp); }; filter f_kern { facility(kern); }; filter f_lpr { facility(lpr); }; filter f_mail { facility(mail); }; filter f_news { facility(news); }; filter f_security { facility(security); }; filter f_user { facility(user); }; filter f_uucp { facility(uucp); }; filter f_local0 { facility(local0); }; filter f_local1 { facility(local1); }; filter f_local2 { facility(local2); }; filter f_local3 { facility(local3); }; filter f_local4 { facility(local4); }; filter f_local5 { facility(local5); }; filter f_local6 { facility(local6); }; filter f_local7 { facility(local7); }; # # log level filters # filter f_emerg { level(emerg); }; filter f_alert { level(alert..emerg); }; filter f_crit { level(crit..emerg); }; filter f_err { level(err..emerg); }; filter f_warning { level(warning..emerg); }; filter f_notice { level(notice..emerg); }; filter f_info { level(info..emerg); }; filter f_debug { level(debug..emerg); }; filter f_is_debug { level(debug); }; # # program filters # filter f_ppp { program("ppp"); }; filter f_slip { program("startslip"); }; # # *.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console # log { source(src); filter(f_err); destination(console); }; log { source(src); filter(f_kern); filter(f_warning); destination(console); }; log { source(src); filter(f_auth); filter(f_notice); destination(console); }; log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_crit); destination(console); }; # # *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages # log { source(src); filter(f_notice); filter(f_not_authpriv); destination(messages); }; log { source(src); filter(f_kern); filter(f_debug); destination(messages); }; log { source(src); filter(f_lpr); filter(f_info); destination(messages); }; log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_crit); destination(messages); }; log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_err); destination(messages); }; # # security.* /var/log/security # log { source(src); filter(f_security); destination(security); }; # # auth.info;authpriv.info /var/log/auth.log log { source(src); filter(f_auth); filter(f_info); destination(authlog); }; log { source(src); filter(f_authpriv); filter(f_info); destination(authlog); }; # # mail.info /var/log/maillog # log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_info); destination(maillog); }; # # lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs # log { source(src); filter(f_lpr); filter(f_info); destination(lpd-errs); }; # # ftp.info /var/log/xferlog # log { source(src); filter(f_ftp); filter(f_info); destination(xferlog); }; # # cron.* /var/log/cron # log { source(src); filter(f_cron); destination(cron); }; # # *.=debug /var/log/debug.log # log { source(src); filter(f_is_debug); destination(debuglog); }; # # *.emerg * # log { source(src); filter(f_emerg); destination(allusers); }; # # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log # console.info /var/log/console.log # #log { source(src); filter(f_console); filter(f_info); destination(consolelog); }; # # uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/all.log # touch /var/log/all.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work # *.* /var/log/all.log # #log { source(src); destination(all); }; # # uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost # *.* @loghost # #log { source(src); destination(loghost); }; # # uncomment these if you're running inn # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit # news.err /var/log/news/news.err # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice # #log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_crit); destination(newscrit); }; #log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_err); destination(newserr); }; #log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_notice); destination(newsnotice); }; # # !startslip # *.* /var/log/slip.log # log { source(src); filter(f_slip); destination(slip); }; # # !ppp # *.* /var/log/ppp.log # log { source(src); filter(f_ppp); destination(ppp); }; # Log remote hosts to {hostname}.log ####################### ### Local Machine ##### ####################### # *.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console log { source(src); filter(f_err); destination(console); }; log { source(src); filter(f_kern); filter(f_warning); destination(console); }; log { source(src); filter(f_auth); filter(f_notice); destination(console); }; log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_crit); destination(console); }; # *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages log { source(src); filter(f_notice); filter(f_not_authpriv); destination(messages); }; log { source(src); filter(f_kern); filter(f_debug); destination(messages); }; log { source(src); filter(f_lpr); filter(f_info); destination(messages); }; log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_crit); destination(messages); }; log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_err); destination(messages); }; # security.* /var/log/security log { source(src); filter(f_security); destination(security); }; # auth.info;authpriv.info /var/log/auth.log log { source(src); filter(f_auth); filter(f_info); destination(authlog); }; log { source(src); filter(f_authpriv); filter(f_info); destination(authlog); }; # mail.info /var/log/maillog log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_info); destination(maillog); }; # cron.* /var/log/cron log { source(src); filter(f_cron); destination(cron); }; # *.=debug /var/log/debug.log log { source(src); filter(f_is_debug); destination(debuglog); }; # *.emerg * log { source(src); filter(f_emerg); destination(allusers); }; ####################### ### Remote Hosts ###### ####################### # *.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit log { source(src); filter(f_err); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_kern); filter(f_warning); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_auth); filter(f_notice); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_crit); destination(remote); }; # *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err log { source(src); filter(f_notice); filter(f_not_authpriv); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_kern); filter(f_debug); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_lpr); filter(f_info); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_crit); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_err); destination(remote); }; # security.* log { source(src); filter(f_security); destination(remote); }; # auth.info;authpriv.info log { source(src); filter(f_auth); filter(f_info); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_authpriv); filter(f_info); destination(remote); }; # mail.info log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_info); destination(remote); }; # cron.* log { source(src); filter(f_cron); destination(remote); }; # *.=debug log { source(src); filter(f_is_debug); destination(remote); }; # *.emerg log { source(src); filter(f_emerg); destination(remote); }; # local.* log { source(src); filter(f_local0); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_local1); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_local2); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_local3); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_local4); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_local5); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_local6); destination(remote); }; log { source(src); filter(f_local7); destination(remote); }; # send all logs to swatch for (near) real-time alerts #log { # source(src); # destination(swatch); #}; ------- End syslog-ng.conf ------- Many Thanks, Kevin Reiter Senior Security Engineer Financial Services, Inc. 21 Harristown Road Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452 (201)652-6000, ext. 588 PGP ID: 0xEE665233 This message may contain confidential or proprietary information and is intended solely for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. 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