[syslog-ng] Installing multiple instances of Syslog-NG

[Evan Rempel]

You don't need to copy the binary, but you do need to specify a uniq set of configuration files, persistence files and control socket.

You also need to ensure that the second instance does NOT read data from the local OS log sources such as
/dev/log
/proc/kmsg

our second instance looks like

syslog-ng --cfgfile=/usr/local/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.files.conf --persist-file=/var/local/syslog-ng.files.persist --pidfile=/var/run/syslog-ng.files.pid --control=/var/local/syslog-ng.files.ctl

Hope that helps.



On 03/04/2014 07:24 AM, Shashank Rohatgi wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can someone help me figure out how to install multiple instances of syslog-ng on a single server.
> Copying the binary and starting it with a different configuration file did spawn another instances but it wasnt independent as i saw it behaving different than what is configured in its syslog-ng file.
>
> I need a parallel instance for development alongside production.
> Thanks in advance
>
> regards
> SK
>
>
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