[syslog-ng] fails if dns error resolve hostname destinationforwarding

[JV]

thanks for the quick response. 

i'm using the default contrib/syslog-ng.conf.RedHat 

source s_sys { file ("/proc/kmsg" log_prefix("kernel: ")); unix-stream ("/dev/log"); internal(); };

/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -d -v
Error resolving hostname; host='sysremote'
No destination address set;



--- On Tue, 11/11/08, Peck, Jonathan <Jonathan.Peck at firstdata.com> wrote:

> From: Peck, Jonathan <Jonathan.Peck at firstdata.com>
> Subject: RE: [syslog-ng] fails if dns error resolve hostname destinationforwarding
> To: nycfresh at yahoo.com, "Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list" <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 12:29 PM
> How do you have your sources section configured? 
> 
> Have you run syslog-ng in debug mode (#syslog-ng -d -v) to
> see if it is
> vomiting back any addtl info when it trys to kick off? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu
> [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of
> JV
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:23 PM
> To: syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu
> Subject: [syslog-ng] fails if dns error resolve hostname
> destinationforwarding
> 
> Tried searching in google and the mailing archives...
> 
> I'm on syslog-ng-2.0.9 and it refuses to start if i
> have a filter like
> 
> filter f_11 {         level(info..emerg); };
> destination d_8 {    udp("sysremote" port(514)); 
> };
> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_11); destination(d_8); };
> 
> and sysremote is not resolvable via my DNS or /etc/hosts 
> 
> You'd think syslog-ng-2.0.9 would continue to run and
> do the other
> filters which is to log locally instead of refusing to run
> at all. Thats
> how the builtin syslog works i believe.
> 
> This limits our ability to swap out replace syslog with
> syslog-ng since
> local logging should not fail just because dns is
> unreachable ?
> 
> Am I missing something. Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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