Hello forum members,
Having spent a couple of
weeks on this problem I thought someone might be able to help getting
syslog-ng 3.9.1 to write log files on
OpenBSD 6.2.
The O/S was a fresh install, then syslog-ng and lastly
BIND. No other packages except syslog-ng and BIND dependencies have been
installed. No binaries or libs from BIND conflict or replace any from
the syslog-ng installation.
The .conf file was copied over from an older OpenBSD system, also running an
older WORKING syslog-ng (3.1.1). The required changes to the .conf were made so
that syslog-ng 3.9.1 with supervisor starts and remains running. By killing
the syslog-ng process I was able to test that the supervisor process
restarts syslog-ng. The rc.d script starts, stops and restarts syslog-ng
as expected. /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -s returns no errors, indicating
that the config file is sane.
In /var/log the only thing it
writes are syslog-ng start/stop messages. In an effort to localise the
problem, a stub syslog-ng.conf was created with the following contents:
@version: 3.9.1
source s_local {
unix-dgram("/dev/log");
};
#
destination catchall { file(/var/log/catchall); };
log { source(s_local); destination(catchall); };
The
permissions and ownership on /var, /var/log, /var/run, and /etc are
correct according to the OpenBSD /etc/mtree/special file. Syslog-ng starts retaining
root permissions (default) and creates /dev/log if it does not
exist. The syslog_ng_flags I use are:
"-R /var/run/syslog_ng.persist -c /var/run/syslog_ng.ctl -p /var/run/syslog_ng.pid"
Have tried running without any flags to see if that would help, but did not help.
The output of syslog-ng -V is:
syslog-ng 3.9.1
Installer-Version: 3.9.1
Revision:
Module-Directory: /usr/local/lib/syslog-ng
Module-Path: /usr/local/lib/syslog-ng
Available-Modules: affile,afprog,afsocket,afsql,afuser,basicfuncs,cef,confgen,cryptofuncs,csvparser,curl,date,dbparser,disk-buffer,geoip-plugin,graphite,kvformat,linux-kmsg-format,pseudofile,system-source,add-contextual-data,json-plugin,syslogformat
Enable-Debug: off
Enable-GProf: off
Enable-Memtrace: off
Enable-IPv6: on
Enable-Spoof-Source: off
Enable-TCP-Wrapper: off
Enable-Linux-Caps: off
On my hunt I foud a message on NARKIVE where a user was having the same
problem with syslog-ng 3.6 on OpenBSD 5.9, there was no solution. There
was a reply saying: "With the changes in 5.6 using sendsyslog(2), only
syslogd picks up local syslog. Search the openbsd-ports list for
syslog-ng to see some comments on it.".
After a further search I turned up
nothing that would help.
Have also tried to compile syslog-ng 3.12 from source to see if that might help solve the problem, but no success on OpenBSD.
Many thanks in advance.
CB