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

[Evan Rempel]

We do exactly what you describe without any issues.

Strictly a config issue, so you could attach your config file(s) so I can have a look.

On 03/04/2014 10:23 PM, Shashank Rohatgi wrote:
> 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?