On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:49:42PM +0100, Rain@home.ro wrote:

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i've been messing around with syslog-ng for some time and i've recently upgraded to the 2.4.20 kernel as soon as it appeared in fact... it ran without any problem on 2.4.18/2.4.19. on the new kernel however it bails out with an unrecognised socket error from io.c... i've managed to make it work though by changing from unix-dgram to unix-stream in syslog-ng.conf. in case somebody has the same problems and syslog-ng bails out with:

io.c: sockaddr2info(): Unsupported address family 63472.

or something similar on the 2.4.20, i suggest the above mentioned "workaround" (change to unix-stream("/dev/log"))...

if this is wrong, or somebody can explain to me.. why unix-dgram doesn't work... i'd be pleased to know :)

this is a kernel bug. I've already reported and also sent a patch to the kernel maintainers. They said it would be included in 2.4.21 For a reference here's the patch: --- socket.c.old Tue Nov 5 18:48:22 2002 +++ socket.c Tue Nov 5 18:49:34 2002 @@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT; err=sock_recvmsg(sock, &msg, size, flags); - if(err >= 0 && addr != NULL && msg.msg_namelen) + if(err >= 0 && addr != NULL) { err2=move_addr_to_user(address, msg.msg_namelen, addr, addr_len); if(err2<0) -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1