I think you've found a bug in service-management.c:

https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/blob/master/lib/service-management.c#L158-L171

If you have syslog-ng compiled with --enable-systemd, it will always be the active service-management unit. I thought we addressed this in a patch by jviktor.



2014-12-04 0:04 GMT+01:00 Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77@gmail.com>:

Also, you might want to use the system() source, which tries to determine the optimal setup to fetch local messages. So no need to use I unix-dgram or internal directly.

On Dec 3, 2014 11:27 PM, "LoneVVolf" <lonewolf@xs4all.nl> wrote:
On 03-12-14 17:15, Tibor Benke wrote:
Hi Lone_Wolf,

Please check, whether the following directory exists on your system (using openrc):

/run/systemd/system/

We check this directory to determine whether systemd is used. This information can help us to solve your problem.

BR,
Tibor

Tibor,  no /run/systemd/system/ folder present on my system.
Below are the contents of my /run folder .
Lone_Wolf

$ ls -l --group-directories-first /run
total 28
drwxr-xr-x  2 avahi  avahi    80  3 dec 13:27 avahi-daemon
drwxr-xr-x  2 clamav clamav   40  3 dec 13:27 clamav
drwxr-xr-x  3 root   lp       80  3 dec 13:27 cups
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     80  3 dec 13:27 dbus
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     40  3 dec 13:27 initramfs
drwxrwxr-x  5 root   uucp    120  3 dec 13:27 lock
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     40  3 dec 13:27 lvm
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     60  3 dec 13:27 mount
drwxr-xr-x  2 mysql  mysql    40  3 dec 13:27 mysqld
drwxr-xr-x  5 root   root    100  3 dec 13:27 network
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     40  3 dec 13:27 nscd
drwxrwxr-x 14 root   root    340  3 dec 13:27 openrc
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     40  3 dec 13:27 samba
drwx--x--x  2 root   root     40  3 dec 13:27 sudo
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     40  3 dec 13:27 svnserve
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     60  3 dec 13:27 tmpfiles.d
drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root    140  3 dec 13:27 udev
drwx------  2 root   root     40  3 dec 13:28 udisks2
drwxr-xr-x  2 uuidd  uuidd    40  3 dec 13:27 uuidd
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      5  3 dec 13:27 acpid.pid
srw-rw-rw-  1 root   root      0  3 dec 13:27 acpid.socket
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      5  3 dec 13:27 avahi-dnsconfd.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      5  3 dec 13:27 crond.pid
----------  1 root   root      0  3 dec 13:27 cron.reboot
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      4  3 dec 13:27 ntpd.pid
srwxr-xr-x  1 root   root      0  3 dec 13:27 syslog-ng.ctl
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      5  3 dec 13:27 syslog-ng.pid
-rw-rw-r--  1 root   utmp   3840  3 dec 23:17 utmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      5  3 dec 13:27 vsftpd.pid
$



______________________________________________________________________________
Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng
Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng
FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq



______________________________________________________________________________
Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng
Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng
FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq