[syslog-ng] Unix datagram

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Fri Mar 2 14:26:06 CET 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 15:07 +0000, Bruno Vieira wrote:
> Hello fellows.
> 
> I will try to be brief with my question.
> I am integrating a team that is developing a system where syslog will
> receive messages and according to some match expressions will have to
> send those messages to another process. 
> 
> So, to do this, I have tried unix-dgram. I use Linux Ubuntu and what
> happens is that when I reload or stop/start syslog I get CORE DUMPED.
> I have made some research in the documents trying to find out the
> reason. What I understood was that unix.dgram only works in BSD. 
> 
> Is this the truth? 
> 
> My solution so far is to use a named pipe instead of an unix datagram
> socket.
> 
> Tell me your opinion please.

which syslog-ng version are you using? both unix-dgram/unix-stream
destinations should work on Linux.

-- 
Bazsi



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