Hello,

As the *--syntax-only* suggest, it only does check for syntactic errors.

A common way to find such issues to start the process in foreground:

* stop syslog-ng systemd service (so it won't get in the way)

* start syslog-ng as the systemd would do, plus include the -F (foreground) option and -e (print internal logs to the stderr); optionally you may also use -d (debug) -v (verbose); but in this case probably the -Fe would suffice

I just tried your config (with additional @version: 3.18), and it started just fine.

About the second part. You already using template in your configuration for the date column ( ${R_DATE} ); in the values you should be able to use any template (not template function due).

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Kokan

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:54 PM N. Max Pierson <nmaxpierson@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi List,

I have 2 questions about the sql driver. First, I am trying to get messages into sql using the sql driver but I get an error when I try and restart syslog-ng when I enable the log statement with the sql destination. The syslog-ng --syntax-only command runs without any issues but systemd throws and error that it cannot restart the service but doesn't give a clear reason. My config is below, doesn't anyone know where in a log I can see why it won't restart??

source s_network { udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514)); };

destination d_mysql {

    sql(type(mysql)

    host("127.0.0.1")

    username("syslog-ng")

    password("password")

    database("syslog")

    table("messages_${HOST}")

    columns("date", "host", "message")

    values("${R_DATE}", "${HOST}", "${MESSAGE}")

    indexes("date", "host") );

};

log { source(s_network); destination(d_mysql); };

My second question is can you use a template with the sql destination driver? I need to reformat some Cisco Nexus logs because of how it formats the date (looks to be non RFC compliant) and if so, can someone give me a sample of config with the template in the sql destination driver? I cannot seem to find in the docs if this is even possible much less and example of how to do it.

TIA,

Max

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