[syslog-ng]OpenBSD on SPARC64 - Syslog-ng hostname issues

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:09 +0000, list.mail@comcast.net wrote:
> I was wondering if someone knows if the Syslog-ng issue with reading
> remote host hostname/IP addresses on SPARC64 has been resolved? 
> 
> https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2004-July/006320.html
> https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2004-August/006395.html
> 
> Or Am I missing something in my config? - I tried every option with the hostname
> as suggested in http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html#hostname

For some reason the address returned by recvmsg() for AF_UNIX sockets
seem to be bogus, so it indeed seems to be a kernel related problem.

A possible workaround is to comment out the offending log message at
io.c:1049

which would solve your problem.

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Bazsi