[syslog-ng] sun solaris syslogng error

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 08:08 -0700, list at net-secured.com wrote:
>  
> I deleted the /dev/log 
> and did a soft link ln -s /devices/pseudo/log at 0:log\@0\:log /dev/log 
>  
> #ls -l /dev/log 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          31 Sep 29 16:54 /dev/log
> -> /devices/pseudo/log at 0:log at 0:log 
> 
> 
> but I am still geting the same error: 
> yslog-ng -f /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf 
> Error opening syslog device; filename='/dev/log', error='No such file
> or directory (2)' 
> Error initializing source driver; source='src_local',
> id='src_local#0' 
> Error initializing message pipeline; 
> root at server:/usr/local/etc# 

Hmm..  I think the symlink you created points to a non-existing file,
the log at 0 portion is duplicated.

The file points here in my case:

"../devices/pseudo/log at 0:log"

> 
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Bazsi