prasad padiyar <prasad.padiyar@gmail.com> writes: [...]
syslog-ng version:
syslog-ng 1.6.12 [...]
I got a reply from one of the balabit guys that i have to use version 3.4.
Indeed, 1.6 is ancient.
1. How many number of times the connection is retried.
It is retried every time_reopen() seconds until it succeeds, or syslog-ng is stopped.
2. when exactly the connection retry happens (when will it get to know when it has to retry)
The retry happens after syslog-ng disconnected (and syslog-ng disconnects when it notices a network error, usually during a write() or a poll()), after time_reopen() seconds have passed.
3. time_reopen(40), what exactly is 40seconds here.
The 40 seconds here is the time spent with the destination suspended after an error, before trying to reconnect again. Hope that answers your questions! -- |8]