[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng fails to listen at port 514

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 14:28 -0400, Vivek Raju wrote:
> Hi,
>         I am trying to implement a centralized syslog-ng solution for
> testing purpose. My configuration is SLES10 on mainframe guest.
> 
> I had followed the steps given in the article below.
>  
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/18044.html
> 
> I have created the configuration on server 
> 
> #
> # uncomment to process log messages from network:
> udp(port(514));
> tcp(ip("
> 192.168.1.42") port(5140) keep-alive(yes));
> 
> # this is for separating out network hosts into individual log files.
> destination std {
>         file ("/var/log/HOSTS/$YEAR-$MONTH/$HOST/$FACILITY-$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY"
> 
>                 owner(root) group(root) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700) create_dirs(y\es)
>         );
> };
> log {
>         source(src);
>         destination(std);
> };
> 
> I then ran SuSEconfig --module syslog-ng. After that i started the syslog service thru /etc/init.d
> 

I don't really know SuSE, so I'm not sure how exactly it generates
configuration files.

Have you checked that syslog-ng started up properly?

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Bazsi