[syslog-ng] Please help me on this error --- syslog-ng[4687]: Connection failed; error='Connection refused (111)', time_reopen='10' I don't see where is the problem

[Jian Zhu]

Thanks Evan,

Yes, the destination for logging to the remote server is rejecting
connection from loghost.
I disabled that and it worked.

appreciated.

James Zhu

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:

> This means that on "loghost" an connection is being opened to another host
> and the other host is refusing the connection.
>
> You can look at your destination definitions on loghost and if they are
> tcp destinations, you can try from loghost
>
> telnet remot_host report_port
>
> and you should see;
>
> loghost%  telnet remote_host remote_port
> Trying 123.456.789.123...
> telnet: connect to address 123.456.789.123: Connection refused
>
>
> This would indicate that there is nothing actually running on the remote
> host that is listening on the port, or that there is a firewall that is
> rejecting the connection.
>
> Evan.
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> Subject: [syslog-ng] Please help me on this error --- syslog-ng[4687]:
> Connection failed; error='Connection refused (111)', time_reopen='10' I
> don't see where is the problem
>
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know what does this mean? please help
>
> Oct  4 17:02:07 loghost syslog-ng[4687]: Connection failed;
> error='Connection refused (111)', time_reopen='10'
> I don't see where is the problem
>
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