Thanks a lot Kokan!!!!! After I put the individual name for each persist-name, no error any more :-). Have a great day! VL -----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of syslog-ng-request@lists.balabit.hu Sent: 2019, February, 27 3:25 AM To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Subject: syslog-ng Digest, Vol 166, Issue 14 Send syslog-ng mailing list submissions to syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to syslog-ng-request@lists.balabit.hu You can reach the person managing the list at syslog-ng-owner@lists.balabit.hu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of syslog-ng digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: syslog-ng.conf error (Péter) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:24:50 +0100 From: Péter, Kókai <peter.kokai@oneidentity.com> To: "Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list" <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng.conf error Message-ID: <CABxQCpj_YRnzzkskbCoi_CULFEuNskO=X1OpsKrQ0T=0V3crug@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello, In order to point out the exact location of issue, you have to share your configuration. If you do not want to share it, there is two hint to find it yourself: 1) The message "Error checking the uniqueness of the persist names, please override it with persist-name option. Shutting" actually truncated (possible by journalctl), and the full version should contain the location of the item that has conflicting persist-name. 2) About persist-name, syslog-ng uses a persist file to store some information (for example to keep data between restart/reload). Date is stored in that file via its key, those keys are generated based on the configuration item options (for file source it could be the path of the file, etc...), sometimes it could collide with other configured item and syslog-ng cannot resolve the name collition; but the user could with specifying the *persist-name* option, which override the default generated option. An example: source s { file("/tmp/file" persist-name("my-tmp-file") ); }; -- Kokan On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:57 PM Lin, Victor <victor.lin@rbc.com> wrote:

Dear all,

I am a newbie for syslog-ng J, could you please help me to figure out my issues with syslog-ng.conf ?

After modified syslog-ng.conf by adding more source, destination and filter, try to restart syslog-ng by /etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart

Got the following error ********************************************* # */etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart* Restarting syslog-ng (via systemctl): Job for syslog-ng.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status syslog-ng.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. [FAILED]

**************************************** # *systemctl status syslog-ng.service* â— syslog-ng.service - LSB: start and stop syslog-NG daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog-ng; bad; vendor preset: enabled ) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-02-26 15:17:04 EST; 30s ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 53303 ExecStop=/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog-ng stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 292500 ExecReload=/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog-ng reload (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 53320 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog-ng start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 116276

Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.083451] WARNING: With use-dns(no), dns-cache() will be forced to 'no' too!; Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.083503] WARNING: With use-dns(no), dns-cache() will be forced to 'no' too!; Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.083554] WARNING: With use-dns(no), dns-cache() will be forced to 'no' too!; Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.250946] Error checking the uniqueness of the persist names, please override it with persist-name op...conf:131:9' Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.250984] Error checking the uniqueness of the persist names, please override it with persist-name op...conf:132:9' Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [FAILED] Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: start and stop syslog-NG daemon. Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com systemd[1]: Unit syslog-ng.service entered failed state. Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service failed. Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

# *journalctl -xe* Feb 26 15:05:28 ABCD.com puppet-agent[48945]: Could not send report: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname Feb 26 15:09:40 ABCD.com sshd[51578]: pam_sss(sshd:auth): authentication success; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost= m3vrb434.rbc1.royalbank.com user=VL51 Feb 26 15:09:40 ABCD.com sshd[51578]: Accepted password for VL51 from 10.94.201.168 port 62031 ssh2 Feb 26 15:10:02 ABCD.com crond[51740]: pam_unix(crond:account): password for user root will expire in 8 days Feb 26 15:10:02 ABCD.com crond[51741]: pam_unix(crond:account): password for user root will expire in 8 days Feb 26 15:10:02 ABCD.com crond[51740]: pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 26 15:10:02 ABCD.com crond[51741]: pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 26 15:10:02 ABCD.com CROND[51743]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) Feb 26 15:10:02 ABCD.com CROND[51742]: (root) CMD (/bin/printf '\n******************************************************************* ****************\n\n For filesize:' >> /app/ Feb 26 15:10:02 ABCD.com CROND[51740]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root Feb 26 15:10:02 ABCD.com sendmail[51759]: x1QKA2Bw051759: from=root, size=1598, class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=< *201902262010.x1QKA2Bw051759@ABCD.com* <201902262010.x1QKA2Bw051759@ABCD.com>>, relay=root@localho Feb 26 15:10:02 ABCD.com sendmail[51759]: x1QKA2Bw051759: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=139598, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], Feb 26 15:10:02 ABCD.com CROND[51741]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root Feb 26 15:10:50 ABCD.com sudo[51905]: VL51 : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/app/syslog-ng/custom/conf ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/su - Feb 26 15:10:50 ABCD.com su[51909]: (to root) VL51 on pts/0 Feb 26 15:10:50 ABCD.com su[51909]: pam_unix(su-l:session): session opened for user root by VL51(uid=0) Feb 26 15:15:01 ABCD.com crond[52764]: pam_unix(crond:account): password for user root will expire in 8 days Feb 26 15:15:01 ABCD.com crond[52764]: pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 26 15:15:01 ABCD.com CROND[52765]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/logrotate /app/syslog-ng/custom/conf/syslog-ng-rotate.conf) Feb 26 15:15:01 ABCD.com CROND[52764]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root Feb 26 15:17:02 ABCD.com polkitd[1117]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:53295:2185270730 (system bus name :1.268 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], Feb 26 15:17:02 ABCD.com systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: start and stop syslog-NG daemon... -- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has begun shutting down -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: *http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel* <http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel> -- -- Unit syslog-ng.service has begun shutting down. Feb 26 15:17:02 ABCD.com supervise/syslog-ng[116275]: Daemon exited gracefully, not restarting; exitcode='0' Feb 26 15:17:03 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53303]: Stopping syslog-ng: [ OK ] Feb 26 15:17:03 ABCD.com systemd[1]: Starting LSB: start and stop syslog-NG daemon... -- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has begun start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: *http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel* <http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel> -- -- Unit syslog-ng.service has begun starting up. Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: Starting syslog-ng: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.082875] WARNING: With use-dns(no), dns-cache() will be forced to 'no' too!; Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.083333] WARNING: With use-dns(no), dns-cache() will be forced to 'no' too!; Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.083396] WARNING: With use-dns(no), dns-cache() will be forced to 'no' too!; Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.083451] WARNING: With use-dns(no), dns-cache() will be forced to 'no' too!; Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.083503] WARNING: With use-dns(no), dns-cache() will be forced to 'no' too!; Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.083554] WARNING: With use-dns(no), dns-cache() will be forced to 'no' too!; Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.250946] Error checking the uniqueness of the persist names, please override it with persist-name option. Shutting Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [2019-02-26T15:17:04.250984] Error checking the uniqueness of the persist names, please override it with persist-name option. Shutting Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com syslog-ng[53320]: [FAILED] Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: start and stop syslog-NG daemon. -- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: *http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel* <http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel> -- -- Unit syslog-ng.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com systemd[1]: Unit syslog-ng.service entered failed state. Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service failed. Feb 26 15:17:04 ABCD.com polkitd[1117]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:53295:2185270730 (system bus name :1.268, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Auth Feb 26 15:20:01 ABCD.com crond[53909]: pam_unix(crond:account): password for user root will expire in 8 days Feb 26 15:20:01 ABCD.com crond[53908]: pam_unix(crond:account): password for user root will expire in 8 days Feb 26 15:20:01 ABCD.com crond[53909]: pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 26 15:20:01 ABCD.com crond[53908]: pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Feb 26 15:20:01 ABCD.com CROND[53910]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1) Feb 26 15:20:01 ABCD.com CROND[53911]: (root) CMD (/bin/printf '\n******************************************************************* ****************\n\n For filesize:' >> /app/ Feb 26 15:20:01 ABCD.com CROND[53908]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root Feb 26 15:20:01 ABCD.com sendmail[53926]: x1QKK1vA053926: from=root, size=1805, class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=< *201902262020.x1QKK1vA053926@ABCD.com* <201902262020.x1QKK1vA053926@ABCD.com>>, relay=root@localho Feb 26 15:20:01 ABCD.com sendmail[53926]: x1QKK1vA053926: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=139805, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], Feb 26 15:20:01 ABCD.com CROND[53909]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root

Thank you very much for your expertize and instruction!!!!!

*VL*

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