[syslog-ng] odd configuration file

[craig bowser]

Never mind.

For those that don't know, a coworker told me that error means the error is
at line 132, column 7.

Thanks.


Craig L Bowser
____________________________

This email is measured by size.  Bits and bytes may have settled during
transport.

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:30 PM, craig bowser <reswob10 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi, I'm just learning about configuring syslog-ng.  I'm using the latest
> version (info at end of email) and I've run into an error I can't figure
> out.  I made a syntax error in my syslog-ng.conf that caused syslog-ng to
> fail to start.  I corrected the error, but now when I try and start
> syslog-ng, it still fails.
>
> trying to start it with 'service syslog-ng start' or 'service syslog-ng
> restart' gets me:  Job for syslog-ng.service failed. See "systemctl status
> syslog-ng.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
>
> But the error is buried in the systemd logs.  Using '/usr/sbin/syslog-ng
> -F'  gets me the following error:
>
> Error resolving reference; content='source', name='s_name',
> location='/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:132:7'
>
>
> What is that file?  Can I safely delete it?  Why can't I make it use the
> new .conf file?  When I try '/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -f
> /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf  -F'   I get the same error.
>
>
> syslog-ng 3.5.6
> Installer-Version: 3.5.6
> Revision: 3.5.6-2 [@416d315] (Ubuntu/15.04)
> Compile-Date: Oct 25 2014 14:14:32
> Available-Modules:
> afuser,afsocket-notls,linux-kmsg-format,afprog,tfgeoip,csvparser,confgen,afamqp,json-plugin,redis,basicfuncs,afsmtp,affile,afsql,afmongodb,cryptofuncs,afsocket-tls,afsocket,syslogformat,afstomp,system-source,dbparser
> Enable-Debug: off
> Enable-GProf: off
> Enable-Memtrace: off
> Enable-IPv6: on
> Enable-Spoof-Source: on
> Enable-TCP-Wrapper: on
> Enable-Linux-Caps: on
> Enable-Pcre: on
>
>
>
>
> Craig L Bowser
> ____________________________
>
> This email is measured by size.  Bits and bytes may have settled during
> transport.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/attachments/20150527/f1833332/attachment.htm