[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng & RedHat

[Sandor Geller]

syslogyk wrote:
>    Hi! 
> 
>  I tried to work with syslog-ng-1.9.9 on Redhat Linux AS 4.
> 
>  Sources (eventlog and syslog-ng) were taken here: http://www.balabit.com/downloads/syslog-ng/1.9/src/
> 
>  I walked through configure, make and make install successfully.
> Simple syslog-ng.conf was placed to /usr/local/etc
> When I run /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng, I get the following error:
> 
> fsync() does not work yet;
> fsync() does not work yet;
> Error binding socket; error='No such file or directory (2)', addr='AF_UNIX(/var/lib/named/dev/log)'
> Error initializing source driver; source='src'

Does the /var/lib/named/dev directory exist on your system? Syslog-ng
creates the sockets only, not the directories.

>   Could you please give me a hint about what was a reason of such error?
>   Anyway, I can't tell I'm interested in last version only. So, could you please advice me syslog-ng version that worked successfully on RedHat Linux AS 4?

You can try the 1.6 branch of syslog-ng, if 1.9 doesn't work for you. In
the source tarball there is already the RHEL-specific packaging included
(syslog-ng.spec.bb), so you can create the rpm package for yourself. See
the comments in the /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf file.

-- 
Sandor Geller
wildy at balabit.hu