[syslog-ng] hostname incorrect after upgrade to 3.1.2

[w3euu]

That did it!  Thank you.  Somehow "bridge" got included in the hosts file
on the 127.0.0.1 line.  I must have done it, but don't know why I would 
have ever done such a thing.  Simply removing bridge from the line
and restarting syslog-ng corected the problem.

I looked right at it earlier and didn't see it.

Thanks again for your help and your patience.

Lee


-----Original Message-----
From: Balazs Scheidler [mailto:bazsi at balabit.hu] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 7:16 AM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] hostname incorrect after upgrade to 3.1.2

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 11:55 -0500, w3euu wrote:
> OK.  I've attached another strace.  This one looks better.  Sorry for the
> fumbled attempt earlier
> And thank you for the hint.
> 
> Let me quickly review the situation.
> 
> I have upgraded 6 systems from syslog-ng (OSE) 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 and then to
> 3.1.3.  All went well.
> Five of the systms work great (including the central logging machine.)  On
> the sixth system (hostname = bridge)
> syslog-ng doesn't pick up the system's hostname but instead syslog-ng
> reports the hostname
> as "locallhost."  I proved that the error is occuring on "bridge" by
running
> tcpdump on bridge.  
> The tcpdump output provided yesterday shows the hostname "localhost" in
the
> tcp output stream from bridge.
> Bridge reports its own hostname correctly using the hostname command, its
> reverse dns reports its hostname correctly
> and there is nothing in the hosts file that should create this problem. 

The problem is that "bridge" as a hostname is listed for the 127.0.0.1
address and there the fully-qualified-name is "localhost.localdomain".

There was a change in syslog-ng, to use DNS and /etc/hosts to determine
the local hostname, since /etc/hostname usually has no FQDN.

So, the solution is to add an entry to /etc/hosts with the local IP
address and the FQDN of bridge and the hostname.



-- 
Bazsi

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