Syslog-ng doesnt expect data on the socket on the reverse direction and shuts down the connection if anything is received.

It is meant to work with /dev/log like devices.

I was wondering if it's correct to ignore the reverse direction, is it?

On Apr 12, 2017 2:34 PM, "Jim Hendrick" <james.r.hendrick@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you have access to the sourcode of otherapp ?

My first guess would be to look at the options of how each end handles the socket.

Jim

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Fabien Wernli <wernli@in2p3.fr> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to use the unix-stream destination to send data to another
application which opens the socket in line mode. The problem is that both
ends complain about the connection breaking all the time:

    syslog-ng[31002]: Syslog connection broken; fd='24', server='AF_UNIX(/var/run/otherapp.sock)', time_reopen='60'
    otherapp[123445]: failed to read from socket #10: Connection reset by peer

I tracked down the problem to the fact that otherapp sends some data after receiving a line from syslog-ng: "data ok", and syslog-ng doesn't seem to like that.

If I set up a unidirectional proxy (that filters out upstream "data ok") between syslog-ng and otherapp everything works fine:

    socat -u UNIX-LISTEN:/tmp/proxy.sock,fork UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/otherapp.sock

Am I doing something wrong here, or is this a known limitation of syslog-ng?

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