[syslog-ng] odd configuration file

[Scheidler, Balázs]

Yup, its a pretty common format though not necessarily the most intuitive
if you haven't seen that.
On May 27, 2015 9:48 PM, "craig bowser" <reswob10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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
>> ____________________________
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