[syslog-ng]Syslog-ng + Mysql problems

[Vladimir Potapov]

Problems whas solved after remove from the line "mysql -u
syslog --password=secret syslog < /var/log/mysql.pipe &" the "&" simbol....


-----Original Message-----
From: syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu
[mailto:syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu]On Behalf Of Bill Nash
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:37 PM
To: Syslog-Ng mailing lists
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]Syslog-ng + Mysql problems



What does your mysql client process count look like, while this is
running? From the description of the problem, it seems like the clients
are spawning, connecting, and then not exiting.

Can you include the output of 'show full processlist' and `ps auwx | grep
mysql | grep -v mysqld | wc -l`?

- billn

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Vladimir Potapov wrote:

> On loghost as log store I'm using syslog-ng-1.6.5-2 + mysql-4.0.21-4. OS
is
> Suse-9.2.
> After configuring database and syslog-ng.conf and start script which send
> logs to mysql from FIFO, I see the following mysql error : ERROR 1040: Too
> many connections.
> Part of syslog-ng.conf where the only local log send to FIFO:
>
> destination d_mysql_local {
>         pipe("/var/log/mysql.pipe"
>         template("INSERT INTO logs (host, facility, priority, level, tag,
> datetime, program, msg)
>    VALUES ( '$HOST', '$FACILITY', '$PRIORITY', '$LEVEL', '$TAG',
> '$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:        	$SEC', '$PROGRAM', '$MSG' );\n")
>      template-escape(yes)); };
>      log { source(src); destination(d_mysql_local); };
>
> Loghost have about 10-20 local log messages per minute. Database use only
> for syslog queries and the load of server CPU about 10% .
>
> Script which sends log from FIFO to Mysql :
> #!/bin/bash
>  if [ -e /var/log/mysql.pipe ]; then
>     while [ -e /var/log/mysql.pipe ]
>     do
>       mysql -u syslog --password=secret syslog < /var/log/mysql.pipe &
>     done
> else
>     mkfifo /var/log/mysql.pipe
> fi
>
> server:/bin # ls -la /var/log/mysql.pipe
> prw-------  1 root root 0 2005-03-23 12:53 /var/log/mysql.pipe
>
> I try to increase max_connection to 500 but this don't solve the problem.
> Have anyone the same problems?
>
> I have the same installation on FreeBSD-5.3p5 and have no problems.
>
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