[syslog-ng]Not Logging

Nate Campi syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Mon, 17 May 2004 13:33:33 -0700


On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 04:05:55PM -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> 
> I am using this as my conf file for my syslog-ng 1.6.3 w/ libol-0.3.13
> to gather logs from cisco. But it is not logging. I am running it on
> Solaris 9. Notice I can get the log on local7 that points to
> /var/log/cisco IF I use Solaris's syslogd
> 
> 
> options { sync (0);
>           time_reopen (10);
>           log_fifo_size (1000);
>           long_hostnames (off);
>           use_dns (yes);
>           use_fqdn (yes);
>           create_dirs (no);
>           dir_perm(0755);
>           perm(0644);
>           chain_hostnames(no);
>           keep_hostname (yes);
>         };

Seems you've done a good job eliminating the network, if syslog-ng isn't
writing the logs I'd check that it's not blocking on DNS lookups.
-- 
Nate

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