[syslog-ng] How to detect loss of connection of remote syslog-ng client.

[Pramod Pillai]

Thanks its worked.
I believe making default value of so-keepalive as "yes" would be useful.

Regards
Pramod

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 14:59 +0530, Pramod Pillai wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am using syslog-ng server on Solaris box and the syslog-ng clients
>> are running on Linux box.
>> When client ( linux )  box crashes the streaming stops. But the
>> syslog-ng server assumes that the client is connected and keeps the
>> connection.
>> Is there any way to detect this condition and close the socket
>> connection to the client which no longer exists.
>
> If the connection is lost without any closing packets, then the only way
> to work around this issue is to enable TCP keepalive with this option:
>
> source s_tcp { tcp(so-keepalive(yes)); };
>
> you may have to tune the TCP keep-alive options on the server.
>
> it would probably make sense to create an inactivity timer, but that
> doesn't exist right now.
>
> --
> Bazsi
>
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