[syslog-ng]syslogging with perl

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:07:34AM +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:37:38AM +0100, Bernd Jucknischke wrote:
> >   I've just been facing a strange problem. Attached you'll find a perl script.
> > I've been running this script on different machines with different results
> > (the path to perl has been adapted, of course):
> > 
> >   machinetype	logging daemon	OS			Perl	result
> > 
> >   pc		syslogd		Debian unstable		5.6	doesn't work
> >   Sun		syslogd		Solaris 2.6		5.004_4	works
> >   Sun		syslog-ng	Solaris 2.6		5.004_4	doesn't work
> > 
> > Did anybody ever experience problems like that? I'd say it's perl related, but
> > I'm not sure; any hint or advice is appreciated.
> 
> I don't know perl, so I can't react on this.

a collegue of mine said that you are trying to use UDP to send a message,
and syslog-ng doesn't listen on UDP by default.

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Bazsi
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