[syslog-ng]Am I an idiot? (tcp destinations)

[Dave Johnson]

Jay--

Assuming you have source {}; and log {}; defined in the file elsewhere.

As for that line...  Are you missing a left parans?

I configure it this way:
destination remote { tcp ( rem.host.name port (514) ); };

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:35:18 -0800, Jay 'Whip' Grizzard
<elfchief-syslogng@lupine.org> wrote:
> Okay, perhaps I'm an idiot, but with a freshly downloaded and compiled
> syslog-ng 1.6.6, I get the following:
> 
> syslogng.conf (one line long):
> 
> destination d_tcp { tcp("10.1.2.3") port(1999); localport(999)); };
> 
> (which is, you'll notice, copied directly out of the docs)
> 
> But I get:
> 
> : [elfchief@bluetail /tmp]% /sbin/syslog-ng --cfgfile=/tmp/syslogng.conf --syntax-only
> : syntax error at 1
> : Parse error reading configuration file, exiting. (line 1)
> 
> ... and no matter what I put in there (I tried a lot of permutations, and
> even cut&pasted bits of other people's configs I saw in the mailing list
> archives), I can't seem to get the option to parse. Am I missing
> something fundamental here? Given that this is the one feature I'd really
> like to use syslog-ng for, it'd be nice if I could get it to work!
> 
> I appreciate any thoughts anyone cares to share...
> 
> -jay
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