[syslog-ng] Excessive Log Statistics

[Matt Cuttler]

Baxter, Scott wrote:
> I apologize for this spam in advance as this may have been addressed
> in the past.
> How can I suppress the following frequent logging:
>  
>  syslog-ng[28465]: Log statistics;
> dropped='tcp(AF_INET(10.101.205.188:10514))=0',
> processed='center(queued)=179', processed='center(received)=44',
> processed='destination(d_auth)=0', processed='destination(d_cron)=42',
> processed='destination(d_mlal)=0', processed='destination(remote)=9',
> processed='destination(d_mlop)=0', processed='destination(d_mesg)=86',
> processed='destination(d_mlrt)=0', processed='destination(d_cons)=0',
> processed='destination(d_mail)=42', processed='source(s_sys)=44'
>  

Change (or add an entry for) stats_freq. The default is 10 minutes, I
believe.

If you wanted, say hourly reporting, you would use:

stats_freq(3600);

in the options { section of your syslog-ng.conf.


-Matt Cuttler