[syslog-ng] syslog-ng doesn't log anything with local configuration

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 00:06 +0100, Uwe Galle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using openSUSE 10.3 with syslog-ng 1.6.12-33 with the following
> configuration file:
> 
> #
> source s_file { internal(); };
> destination d_file { file("/home/uga/Daten/system/system.msg"); };
> log { source(s_file); destination(d_file); };
> 
> You see, it's really simple. ls -l displays for the file:
> 
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root     0 2008-02-07 22:03 system.msg
> 
> So system.msg is writable for all. But nothing is logged to the file,
> even after restart. The FAQ mentions a similar case
> (http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html#dupe_sources) but the problem
> here are clearly duplicate  sources in the directives. This is not the
> case here. Any ideas are very welcome.

The "internal" source is used to generate syslog-ng internal messages,
not local messages. You probably need 

unix-dgram("/dev/log") in your source statement if you want local logs.

-- 
Bazsi