[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 2.1.4 - file sources are read only when reload or restart is performed?

[Rafał Radecki]

Thanks for the tip, I will try with newer version ;)

BR,
Rafal.


2014-07-18 12:56 GMT+02:00 Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77 at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I can't remember when syslog-ng started to support following files
> properly, but that actually may have happened way past 2.1.x (3.0.x
> probably).
>
> I would strongly recommend to upgrade, supporting that ancient version
> (probably over a decade old) is not really feasible.
>
> Bazsi
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All ;)
>>
>> I am using a virtual machine with:
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga)
>> Linux logserver01 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 17:36:59 EDT 2011
>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> syslog-ng 2.1.4
>>
>> I have following configuration:
>>
>> ...
>>   9 options {
>>  10         create_dirs (yes);
>>  11         dir_group (root);
>>  12         dir_owner (root);
>>  13         dir_perm (0700);
>>  14         group (root);
>>  15         owner (root);
>>  16         perm (0600);
>>  17         flush_lines(1);
>>  18         flush_timeout (1000);
>>  19         keep_hostname (yes);
>>  20         log_fifo_size (1);
>>  21         use_dns (no);
>>  22         use_fqdn (no);
>>  23 };
>> ...
>>  39 source s_stdout {
>>  40 #       file ("/logs/stdout.log" flags(no-parse) follow_freq(1));
>>  41         file ("/logs/stdout.log" flags(no-parse));
>>  42 };
>> ...
>> 61 destination d_stdout         {
>> file("/var/log/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY/stdout"); };
>> ...
>> 80 log { source(s_stdout); destination(d_stdout); };
>>
>> The problem is that changes in /logs/stdout.log are only visible in
>> /var/log/20140717/stdout when I perform /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload or
>> restart. I tried several settings of flush_*, log_fifo_size and follow_freq
>> but with no luck :D
>>
>> Is it a problem withe the version that I use (quite old :D ) or is there
>> a mistake in my configuration maybe?
>>
>> BR,
>> Rafal.
>>
>>
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>
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>
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