[syslog-ng] v3.3 not flushing lines?

[Peter Eisenlohr]

Am 12.01.2012 02:05, schrieb Clayton Dukes:
> I have a user experiencing an issue where some of the incoming logs
> are not getting piped to my perl script until the second time we
> generate events.
>
> I believe this is generally set using flush_lines(1), but it doesn’t
> seem to be honoring that setting in the config.
> I also tried adding flush_timeout(900), but that has no affect.
> In the output below, if I quit the telnet and start it again, the
> previously missing events are then received (but the current ones are
> missing) - basically, it doesn't appear to be flushing every single line.
> Possible other reason: has something changed between v2.x and 3.x
> where the program() destination would possibly not send an EOF signal
> - i.e. is the pipe now kept open vs. an individual call to the program
> each time in v2.x?

Posting your syslog-ng.conf could help.

Peter