[syslog-ng] 3.1.2 OSE $SEQNUM Documentation Error?

[Fekete Robert]

Fekete Robert wrote:

> 
> Mike Civil wrote:
> 
>> I've been playing with Postgresql and 3.1.2 OSE on Gentoo and found a 
>> discrepancy when using the $SEQNUM macro and logging and recording on 
>> the same host.
>>
>> The 3.1 (& 3.2) docs state "The sequence number increases for every 
>> message, and is not lost even if syslog-ng is reloaded or restarted." 
>> However I noticed that each time syslog-ng is restarted the value 
>> returned by $SEQNUM starts at 1.
>>
>> A quick check of the source code (specifically templates.c and misc.h) 
>> shows no logic to keep state, the value is initialised to 1 on program 
>> start.
>>
>> Is this an OSE/PE difference, a documentation hiccup or (more likely!) 
>> have I got confused somewhere?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Definitely not a difference between OSE/PE, either a bug in the docs or in 
> syslog-ng. I'll look into it.
> 
> Robert


I've confirmed it with the developers, it's a syslog-ng bug.

Robert

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