When I start syslog-ng I always get following error in the log. Jun 17 10:34:22 Node1 syslog-ng[836]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.2' Jun 17 10:34:22 Node1 syslog-ng[836]: Error opening control socket, bind() faile d; socket='/home/subodh/install/syslog-ng/install//var/syslog-ng.ctl', error='N o such file or directory (2)' What is the control socket in syslog-ng? Should I be worried about this,what functionality do I loose 'cause syslog-ng is not able to create control socket? I am running version 3.0.2 on PowerPC 85xxx platform. Below is the output of syslog-ng -v syslog-ng 3.0.2 Revision: ssh+git://bazsi@git.balabit//var/scm/git/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-ose--mainline--3.0#master#e1c8e7f086f5c5b73727cfef6d351614d87574ed Compile-Date: Jun 16 2009 16:54:10 Enable-Threads: off Enable-Debug: off Enable-GProf: off Enable-Memtrace: off Enable-Sun-STREAMS: off Enable-Sun-Door: off Enable-IPv6: on Enable-Spoof-Source: off Enable-TCP-Wrapper: on Enable-SSL: off Enable-SQL: off Enable-Linux-Caps: on Enable-Pcre: on /Subodh Nijsure
Make sure the directory /home/subodh/install/syslog-ng/install//var/ actually exists. (The var directory is not created by default.) Syslog-NG will automatically create the .ctl file for you. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Subodh Nijsure <subodh.nijsure@gmail.com>wrote:
When I start syslog-ng I always get following error in the log.
Jun 17 10:34:22 Node1 syslog-ng[836]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.2' Jun 17 10:34:22 Node1 syslog-ng[836]: Error opening control socket, bind() faile d; socket='/home/subodh/install/syslog-ng/install//var/syslog-ng.ctl', error='N o such file or directory (2)'
What is the control socket in syslog-ng? Should I be worried about this,what functionality do I loose 'cause syslog-ng is not able to create control socket?
I am running version 3.0.2 on PowerPC 85xxx platform.
Below is the output of syslog-ng -v
syslog-ng 3.0.2 Revision: ssh+git://bazsi@git.balabit //var/scm/git/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-ose--mainline--3.0#master#e1c8e7f086f5c5b73727cfef6d351614d87574ed Compile-Date: Jun 16 2009 16:54:10 Enable-Threads: off Enable-Debug: off Enable-GProf: off Enable-Memtrace: off Enable-Sun-STREAMS: off Enable-Sun-Door: off Enable-IPv6: on Enable-Spoof-Source: off Enable-TCP-Wrapper: on Enable-SSL: off Enable-SQL: off Enable-Linux-Caps: on Enable-Pcre: on
/Subodh Nijsure
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Hi, The socket could be used to query syslog-ng statistics as of now. We are planning to add some more control functionality later some day. It uses a simple line command communication, so after connecting to it as a unix socket, simply send a line "STATS\n" you will get csv like statistics ended by a '.' line. best, M On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 10:44 -0700, Subodh Nijsure wrote:
When I start syslog-ng I always get following error in the log.
Jun 17 10:34:22 Node1 syslog-ng[836]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.0.2' Jun 17 10:34:22 Node1 syslog-ng[836]: Error opening control socket, bind() faile d; socket='/home/subodh/install/syslog-ng/install//var/syslog-ng.ctl', error='N o such file or directory (2)'
What is the control socket in syslog-ng? Should I be worried about this,what functionality do I loose 'cause syslog-ng is not able to create control socket?
I am running version 3.0.2 on PowerPC 85xxx platform.
Below is the output of syslog-ng -v
syslog-ng 3.0.2 Revision: ssh+git://bazsi@git.balabit//var/scm/git/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-ose--mainline--3.0#master#e1c8e7f086f5c5b73727cfef6d351614d87574ed Compile-Date: Jun 16 2009 16:54:10 Enable-Threads: off Enable-Debug: off Enable-GProf: off Enable-Memtrace: off Enable-Sun-STREAMS: off Enable-Sun-Door: off Enable-IPv6: on Enable-Spoof-Source: off Enable-TCP-Wrapper: on Enable-SSL: off Enable-SQL: off Enable-Linux-Caps: on Enable-Pcre: on
/Subodh Nijsure ______________________________________________________________________________ Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng FAQ: http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html
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