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

[Shashank Rohatgi]

i was able to run the second instance with all three parameters but I am
more confused..
The intent was to reroute messages from production instance to dev
instances on the same machine and take out a selected steam of logs on a
different port.
rather than just the selected stream the second instance can see all the
logs.  Both the instances are listening on different ports.

 Port 514- gets logs from two products (say windows and unix)  i write
Windows to disk and route the unix logs on say port 517 (to second instance)
Second instance is configure to write anything that it receives to a file.
To my surprise the above  file has logs for Windows and there is no network
exchange at all.

Could it be that the second instance internally confusing sources and
destinations?



On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:

> The persistence file is used to store the progress on the sources. If the
> source is from the network, then there
> isn't any progress, or stated differently, the concept of progress does
> not apply.
>
> If the source is reading from a file, then there is a "current position"
> in the file. If syslog-ng is stopped for
> a few minutes and then started again, it will resume from where it left of
> in the file.
>
> The control file can be used to send commands to a running instance of
> syslog-ng. You can get statistics and do other things.
> Best to read the manual on syslog-ng-ctl
>
> Evan.
>
> On 03/04/2014 01:18 PM, Shashank Rohatgi wrote:
> > 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?
>
>
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