[syslog-ng] Error accepting AF_UNIX connection, opened connections: 100, max: 100

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:43 +0100, Hari Sekhon wrote:
> I'm getting the following on a host that is sending logs to a remote
> central logserver:
> 
> syslog-ng[2390]: Error accepting AF_UNIX connection, opened connections:
> 100, max: 100
> 
> Why is this happening? It isn't accepting logs, it's only sending them.
> And I also increased the remote logserver's max to 100 with the
> following line
> 
> source s_tcp { tcp( port(<someport>) max-connections(1000)); };
> 
> For a start, I don't have 100 hosts logging to the remote logserver.
> Second, this host isn't the logserver so it shouldn't have this in it's
> /var/log/messages!!!!
> 

syslog-ng clearly states that it is AF_UNIX connection, thus it
is /dev/log that it complains about.

You probably have more than 100 processes writing /dev/log.


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Bazsi