[syslog-ng] I/O errors

[Russell Fulton]

On 18/06/2013, at 8:07 AM, Russell Fulton <r.fulton at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

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> On 17/06/2013, at 11:44 PM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> the peer has terminated the connection in which case syslog-ng automatically reconnects. these lines should contain more information :(
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>> anyway, you can find out what happens by tcpdumping the network interface and looking for RST packets.
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> Thanks Bazsi!  will do.  The only connection is to another machine also running syslog-ng.  Any hints on what might cause it to reset the connection.  There is not a huge load being forwarded — order of tens of logs/sec.
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Oh, I see. These are incoming connection not outgoing ones!  That makes more sense.  I had not realised that that many of our boxes were using tcp to send stuff to our loghost.

Now I have a handle on this I will follow it up.

R