[syslog-ng] Syslog_ng 3.0.7 issues running in Central server mode on AIX 7.1

[Rakesh Rajasekharan]

Can someone please help me out with the below issue. I am stuck here and
unable to find any luck with this...


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Rakesh Rajasekharan <
rakesh.rajasekharan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am facing some challenges configuring the syslog_ng( 3.0.7) for central
> logging on AIX. The subsystem becomes in-operative while trying to set it
> up for central logging.
> But otherwise while tryng to log the messages on the same machine it runs
> fine...
>
> Below are the logs
>
> 1. Logging on the same host.
>
> # /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/init.d/syslog-ng.d restart
> 0513-044 The syslog_ng Subsystem was requested to stop.
> 0513-059 The syslog_ng Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is
> 9043968.
> # ^C
> # lssrc -a |grep -i syslog
>  syslog_ng        local            9043968      active
>  syslogd          ras                           inoperative
>
>
> Now ,after  I change the conf file to the central server one...
> # cp syslog-ng.conf.server-sample syslog-ng.conf
> # /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/init.d/syslog-ng.d restart
> 0513-044 The syslog_ng Subsystem was requested to stop.
> 0513-059 The syslog_ng Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is
> 3342368.
> # lssrc -a |grep -i syslog
>  syslogd          ras                           inoperative
>  syslog_ng        local                         inoperative
>
>
> Below is are the contents for myu conf file whiel trying to set up for
> central logging.
> # cat syslog-ng.conf.server-sample
> @version: 3.0
>
> source s_remote { tcp(); };
> destination d_clients { file("/var/adm/messages-ng.$HOST.log"); };
> log { source(s_remote); destination(d_clients); };
> source s_local {
>         internal();unix-dgram("/dev/log");
> };
> destination d_local {
>         file("/var/log/syslog-ng.log" owner("root") group("adm")
> perm(0640));
> };
> log {
>         source(s_local);
>         destination(d_local);
> };
> destination d_messages {
>         file("/var/log/messages-ng" owner("root") group("adm") perm(0640));
> };
> log {
>         source(s_local);
>         destination(d_messages);
> };
>
> Please let me know if somehting in he conf file does not look fine and
> might be causing the susbsytem to turn inoperative. Because If i revert
> back to my old config file the subsystem again becomes active.
>
>
> Regards,
> Rakesh
>
>
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