[syslog-ng]Re: Solved: Re: troubles with postfix and syslog-ng 1.5.21: lost log lines

[Balazs Scheidler]

Hi,

Thanks for finding this out. Ccing to the syslog-ng list.

postfix is chrooted, and thus cannot reopen log connections from the
chrooted jail. if one runs postfix it is advisably to fetch logs from
/var/spool/postfix/dev/log

It's not syslog-ng specific though.

Nate could you add this to the FAQ?


On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:05:07PM +0200, Dr. Peter Bieringer wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2002 15:48 +0200 Balazs Scheidler
> <bazsi@balabit.hu> wrote:
> 
> >> 2) after restarting syslog-ng, postfix/nqmgr do no longer log
> >> 
> >> That's very strange, I don't find a solution until now. Do you have
> >> hints?
> > 
> > this is a libc issue IMHO, libc doesn't immediately reopen log connections
> > if sending a message fails. as you restart syslog-ng the connections to
> > the previous instance of syslog-ng are lost.
> 
> Looks like through a magic mechanism, logging works on startup also by the
> chrooted-postfix process. To reestablish the log on syslog-ng restart, the
> log socket has to be connected again:
> 
> 
> -- syslog-ng.conf      8 Oct 2002 12:13:53 -0000       1.9
> +++ syslog-ng.conf      9 Oct 2002 12:54:56 -0000
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> 
>  source s_local { internal();
>                  unix-stream("/dev/log" keep-alive(yes)
> max-connections(100));
> +                unix-stream("/var/spool/postfix/dev/log" keep-alive(yes)
> max-connections(100));
>                  file("/proc/kmsg");
>  };
> 
> 
> Perhaps an entry for a FAQ. Also the one with the too few log connect
> limits.
> 
>         Peter
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