prasad padiyar <prasad.padiyar@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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!

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