I didn’t come across anything like this while scouring the archives, but maybe someone has some ideas.

So I just installed 1.5.26 onto a fresh RH8 install and I’m trying to use my previous init.d script (see below) that I got from an “old school” post from Binder. I’m not a rocket scientist when it comes to linux, but according to the man pages the latest NG is still looking for the config file in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf. I’m getting the following error message when I try to run my init.d file.

Starting syslog-ng: Cannot open configuration file /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf for reading

Parse error reading configuration file, exiting. (line 1)

I don’t see anything in the script that looks like it should point it to the usr/local dir…….

So what am I missing? Or is there just a newer copy of an init script that I can mooch?

JM

:

################################################################################

#

# Program: syslog-ng init script

#

# Description:

#

# This is an init script for syslog-ng on the Linux platform.

#

# It totally relies on the Redhat function library and works the same

# way as other typical Redhat init scripts.

#

#

# Platforms (tested): Linux (Redhat 6.1)

#

#

# Author: Gregor Binder <gbinder@sysfive.com>

#

# Last Changed: October 10, 2000

#

# Copyright (c) 2000 by sysfive.com GmbH, All rights reserved.

# Modded as needed for aesthetic porpoises -JM

################################################################################

################################################################################

# configuration

#

INIT_PROG="/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng" # Full path to daemon

INIT_OPTS="-v -p /var/log/syslog-ng.pid" # options passed to daemon

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin

INIT_NAME=`basename "$INIT_PROG"`

# Source Redhat function library.

#

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source config

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/syslog ] ; then

. /etc/sysconfig/syslog

else

KLOGD_OPTIONS="-2"

fi

# Uncomment this if you are on Redhat and think this is useful

#

#. /etc/sysconfig/network

#

#if [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ]

#then

# exit 0

#fi

RETVAL=0

umask 077

ulimit -c 0

# See how we were called.

case "$1" in

start)

echo -n "Starting $INIT_NAME: "

daemon --check $INIT_PROG "$INIT_PROG $INIT_OPTS"

RETVAL=$?

echo -n "Starting Kernel Logger and Syslog-ng v.1.4.12: "

[ -x "/sbin/klogd" ] && daemon klogd $KLOGD_OPTIONS

echo

[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch "/var/lock/subsys/${INIT_NAME}"

;;

stop)

echo -n "Stopping $INIT_NAME: "

killproc $INIT_PROG

RETVAL=$?

echo -n "Stopping Kernel Logger and Syslog-ng v.1.4.12: "

[ -x "/sbin/klogd" ] && killproc klogd

echo

[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f "/var/lock/subsys/${INIT_NAME}"

;;

status)

status $INIT_PROG

RETVAL=$?

;;

restart|reload)

$0 stop

$0 start

RETVAL=$?

;;

*)

echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload}"

exit 1

esac

exit $RETVAL