Hi,

 

I am facing some challenges configuring the syslog_ng( 3.0.7) for central logging on AIX. The subsystem becomes in-operative while trying to set it up for central logging.

But otherwise while tryng to log the messages on the same machine it runs fine...

 

Below are the logs

 

1. Logging on the same host.

 

# /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/init.d/syslog-ng.d restart
0513-044 The syslog_ng Subsystem was requested to stop.
0513-059 The syslog_ng Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 9043968.
# ^C
# lssrc -a |grep -i syslog
 syslog_ng        local            9043968      active
 syslogd          ras                           inoperative

 

 

Now ,after  I change the conf file to the central server one...

# cp syslog-ng.conf.server-sample syslog-ng.conf
# /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/init.d/syslog-ng.d restart
0513-044 The syslog_ng Subsystem was requested to stop.
0513-059 The syslog_ng Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 3342368.
# lssrc -a |grep -i syslog
 syslogd          ras                           inoperative
 syslog_ng        local                         inoperative

 

 

Below is are the contents for myu conf file whiel trying to set up for central logging.

# cat syslog-ng.conf.server-sample
@version: 3.0

source s_remote { tcp(); };
destination d_clients { file("/var/adm/messages-ng.$HOST.log"); };
log { source(s_remote); destination(d_clients); };

source s_local {
        internal();unix-dgram("/dev/log");
};

destination d_local {
        file("/var/log/syslog-ng.log" owner("root") group("adm") perm(0640));
};

log {
        source(s_local);
        destination(d_local);
};

destination d_messages {
        file("/var/log/messages-ng" owner("root") group("adm") perm(0640));
};

log {
        source(s_local);
        destination(d_messages);
};

 

Please let me know if somehting in he conf file does not look fine and might be causing the susbsytem to turn inoperative. Because If i revert back to my old config file the subsystem again becomes active.

 

 

Regards,

Rakesh