[syslog-ng] Question about unix-dgram destinations

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Thu Feb 23 19:26:05 CET 2006


Can you check if the latest 1.9.x snapshot has the same behaviour?

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:31 -0800, Tom Morano wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an application that I would like to send all syslog messages to via
> an AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM socket. I declared a unix-dgram destination in my
> syslog-ng.conf file and have configured syslog-ng so that it logs all
> messages to that destination. Everything works fine as long as my
> application is running before syslog-ng starts up. If I try to start up
> syslog-ng before my application, I get the following error message
> 
> Re-Staring syslog servicesError connecting to AF_UNIX(/tmp/.mysock): Bad
> file descriptor
> 
> and syslog-ng exits with an error. 
> 
> Is there any way I can have syslog-ng start before my application with a
> unix-dgram destination? Or am I just missing something obvious?

> 
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Bazsi



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