[syslog-ng] Newbie
David Anderson
dma at pern.co.uk
Sun Jan 29 17:54:16 CET 2006
ajc80,
Sunday, January 29, 2006, 3:30:27 PM, you wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm a newbie to syslog-ng, I have followed the instructions and used and
> altered the necessary examples to suit my directory structures, so my syslog
> messages are dumped in to mysql database.
> When starting syslog-ng I get the following messages:
> # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start
> Starting MySQL pipe...
> Starting syslog-ng...
> Warning: No source refers to internal messages, they'll go to /dev/null
> unresolved reference: inputs
> Error initializing configuration, exiting.
> The "No source refers to internal messages...." message I understand.
> The "unresolved reference: inputs" I don't and can't seem to find anything
> in the archives.
Looking through your conf file I don't see an inputs source - except
the commented out Solaris one.
> I've included the syslog-ng.conf file and the mysql.pipe file below.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Adrian.
> #####################################################################
> # Define syslog input stream
> # This is specific to Solaris 9
> # source inputs { internal();
> # sun-streams("/dev/log" door("/var/run/syslog_door"));
> # tcp(max_connections(1000)); };
> # For newer versions of Linux (Debian GNU/Linux woody,
> # and RedHat Linux post 7.0)
> #
> source stdlog { unix-dgram("/dev/log"); };
As above. I am a newbie myself so I am probably talking through my
hat anyway ;)
--
Best regards,
David mailto:dma at pern.co.uk
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