[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng & RedHat

syslogyk syslogyk at yandex.ru
Fri Mar 10 17:42:04 CET 2006


  Sandor!

 Yes, 1.6.9 is working for me (RedHat Linux Enterprise AS 4)!
After configure, make & make install I had to create /var/lib/ntp/dev and /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng/ directories (for log and syslog-ng.conf, respectively). After that, all is working.

 Thank you for you help!


>  Sandor!
>
> Thank you for your answer. Yes, I tried to create \var\lib\named\dev . Then, I run syslog-ng again. As result, the file \var\lib\named\dev\log was created (with size of 0 byte), and I have got the same error.
>
> About 1.6. OK, I will try it and let you know about results.
>Thank you again!
>
>
>>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.
>


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