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

[Shashank Rohatgi]

Evan

Thank you for your reply. I am new to syslog-ng on command line.  Can you
also explain what are a persist and control  files?




On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:

> 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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