[syslog-ng] syslog-ng service not starting

[Sandor Geller]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:00 PM, James McDonald <jmcdonald at lce.com> wrote:
> I returned from being out of the office for week and realized something was
> “off” with syslog-ng.  I was unable to restart the service.  I did a
> ‘service syslog-ng status’ and it says it’s stopped.  When I try ‘service
> syslog-ng start’ I get the following error:
>
>
>
> Error binding socket; addr='AF_INET(0.0.0.0:443)', error='Address already in
> use (98)'

listening on port 443 is unusual for syslog, usually https servers are
bound to it so you should check / update your config