On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:35:42PM +1000, John Doe wrote:

Hi, I just downloaded syslog-ng 1.1.33 and I'm trying to run it on FreeBSD 3.3. syslog-ng compiles and installs without any problems at all, but

nice to hear.

when it comes to running it I get no log entries. The following is my syslog-ng.conf file which I am using, and I'd guess that I've made some terrible problem there, if you could please point me to where I am going wrong it would be much appreciated.

#----cut----- options { sync(0); time_reopen(10); log_fifo_size(100) };

source src { unix-stream("/var/run/log"); internal(); };

destination everything { file("/var/log/newsyslog" compress(on) sync(0) log_fifo_size(10)); };

log { source(src); destination(everything); }; #----cut------

The problem is that BSD systems use unix-dgram sockets to send local log messages. So your source statement should look like: source src { unix-dgram("/var/run/log"); internal(); }; This is described in the INSTALL file: BSDi: ----- BSD is similar to Linux (or vice-versa Linux is similar to BSD, but this is another issue), so BSD has also a unix socket for log communication, but it's of type SOCK_DGRAM, and it is located at /var/run/log. So the source statement you are looking for is: source stdlog { unix-dgram("/var/run/log"); }; Or in the .sgml generated documentation doc/sgml/syslog-ng.txt:

I intend to run syslog-ng over (remote logging) my LAN (Linux, OpenBSD and FreeBSD machines) when I get it going with what-ever encryption/hashing syslog-ng supports. Sorry for the poor question, however there doesn't appear to be much documention included with syslog-ng. Suggestion: how about you include 5 sample setup files which syslog-ng users have put into effect on their systems in a doc/samples directory. If you cannot help me with my log-configuration file above, perhaps you could send me your syslog-ng config file (well actaully I'd be interested in seeing how you've implemented syslog-ng anway).

You can find a demo configuration file which includes all possible parameters syslog-ng parses (doc/syslog-ng.conf.demo), even those syslog-ng doesn't implement yet (compress, encrypt etc. come to mind), and another one meant as a default configuration file: doc/syslog-ng.conf.sample -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 url: http://www.balabit.hu/pgpkey.txt