[syslog-ng] syslon-ng temote logging

[Sandor Geller]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru> wrote:
> Hello. I have some trouble - all my mail logs send to local syslog-ng on
> server, that put it into file /var/log/maillog and send to remote logger
> by udp, then remote logging server dies, local syslog-ng buffers logs
> some time, after that - system has very big lavg.
>
> Is that possible to drops some logs if the destination server not
> available?

syslog-ng should work exactly this way. However there was an issue
with syslog-ng 2.x and 3.x releases where syslog-ng enters a busy loop
when a remote UDP destination goes down. This has been fixed recently
in git commit #e4136cb1f6ac507cf265cb3614af170c301e4a88

Regards,

Sandor