[syslog-ng] syslog-ng own logs

[Sandor Geller]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:46 PM, André Larose <andre.larose at telus.com> wrote:

> I only  use syslog-ng to capture logs of my in-house applications but not the usual syslog messages, I leave that to the sysadm team. This means when syslog-ng sends messages about itself I am not be able to see them as they end up in the other syslog, “I think”.

syslog-ng never sends logs to /dev/log unless configured to do so, but
uses the internal facility which might missing from your
configuration.

> I would like to know how I can save to file the logs generated by syslog-ng itself .

using something like this

source s_syslogng {
    source(internal);
};

destination d_syslongng {
  file("/var/log/syslog-ng.log");
};

log {
  source(s_syslogng);
  destination(d_syslogng);
};

will do the trick.

Regards,

Sandor