[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng beginners guide

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 15:15 +0300, Cosmin Neagu wrote:
> Hello again, 
> Things are evolving a little bit.
> 
> PS: something else that i noticed and i don't know what it means.
> One of the syslog-ng messages is like this:
> syslog-ng[20083]: Log statistics; dropped='pipe(/tmp/mysql.pipe)=0',
> processed='center(queued)=30', processed='center(received)=15',
> processed='destination(d_boot)=0', processed='destination(d_auth)=4',
> processed='destination(d_cron)=9',
> processed='destination(d_mysql)=15',
> processed='destination(d_mlal)=0', processed='destination(d_mesg)=2',
> processed='destination(d_cons)=0', processed='destination(d_spol)=0',
> processed='destination(d_mail)=0', processed='source(s_sys)=15',
> processed='source(s_router_udp)=0'
> 
> What could be the cause for that "dropped" there? Should'nt be
> processed?

Sometimes, syslog-ng can drop messages. That counter is the number of
drops syslog-ng performed itself. The best value of that counter is
zero. :)

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Bazsi