[syslog-ng] syslog-ng and log4j

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 12:33 +0000, Sigurður Bjarnason wrote:
> Well,
> 
> The log4j client is sending to the local client and that client is sending to the central server..  however... I am seeing drop in logs :( 
> 
> options { create_dirs(yes);
>           dir_perm(0755);
> 	  dir_owner(root);
> 	  dir_group(root);
>           perm(0600);
>           owner(root);
> 	  group(root);
>           chain_hostnames(no);
>           keep_hostname(yes);
>           stats(900);
>           use_time_recvd(yes);
>           time_reopen(5); };
> 
> source local {
>         pipe("/proc/kmsg");
>         unix-stream("/dev/log");
>         internal();
>         udp(port(514));
>         tcp(port(514) keep-alive(yes) max-connections(5)); };
> 
> 
> ## send everything to loghost too in case of 2x syslog servers
> destination syslog-server-1 { tcp("192.168.1.150" port(514));};
> destination syslog-server-2 { tcp("192.168.1.151" port(514));};
> log { source(local); destination(syslog-server-1);destination(syslog-server-2);};
> 
> 
> this is my local syslog-ng client config, if I take the udp port part out.. no logs arrive from log4j.  

if log4j can only use UDP, then increase the receive buffer of syslog-ng
(so_rcvbuf option, and /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max setting on Linux)

-- 
Bazsi