[syslog-ng] Syslog daemon restart fails on AIX 7.1 in central server

[Pal Tamas]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 06:54:33PM +0530, Rakesh Rajasekharan wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am faced with a rather strange issue with syslog 3.0.7 version. The daemon
> does not start at all when I try to run it in the central server mode.
> I though do not get any error messages .
> But, I noticed that after a reboot of the machine. Everything works fine. Can
> someone please suggest of any possible areas to check.
>  
> Thanks,
> Rakesh
Hi,

We need more information about this. 
What is your syslog-ng configuration?
If your syslog-ng listens on  514/tcp port (the default server port for tcp
transport):
 - Did you disabled the rsh service in /etc/inetd.conf ? By default,
   it's the service that listens on 514/tcp.
 - probably if you configured your system to start syslog-ng before
   starting inetd, syslog-ng acquired the port before inetd could start.

Otherwise, did you tried to run syslog-ng with the -Fedv arguments added
from the command line? It won't go to the background, but will display
all startup messages it may or may not be able/not configured to write out.

Regards,
-- 
Pal Tamas/Folti
folti at balabit.hu