[syslog-ng] unix_stream socket

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 06:02 +0100, patrick hartemann wrote:
> Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 10:41 +0000, pat.hartemann at bluewin.ch wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I'm configuring syslog-ng 2.0 on a RHEL ES 4 U4 system. One of the 
> >> destination is an unix stream socket.
> >> After the first log writen on this socket, I get the error message 
> >> :
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Nov 27 11:32:30 ch-syslog-1 syslog-ng[10153]: I/O error occurred 
> >> while writing; fd='8', error='Connection refused (111)' 
> >> Nov 27 11:32:30 ch-syslog-1 syslog-ng[10153]: Connection broken; 
> >> time_reopen='10' 
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > please check syslog-ng using strace, and see where it gets the
> > connection refused error.
> >
> > might happen that the perl script uses SOCK_DGRAM while syslog-ng uses
> > SOCK_STREAM ?
> >
> >   
> in fact this comes from socket type. I've tried with tcp, and gotten the 
> same issue.
>  However with a udp or datagram unix socket that's working fine. Looks 
> like syslog-ng doesn't like connection oriented type ....
> Once more, it doesn't work in anyway with  syslog-ng 2.00 but works fine 
> with 1.6.9 (on same RHEL system)

tcp logging should work, and in fact I've just tried it and it really
does.

I also tested unix-stream destination and it also works, although I'm
looking at the latest version in my version controlled tree.

Can you check if the latest snapshot shows the same problem?

-- 
Bazsi