[syslog-ng] Error while spawning the syslog-ng : "source plugin system not found "

[Scheidler, Balázs]

No not necessarily, it is a built-in source that detects your local log
transport and generates config accordingly.

This module is shipped with syslog-ng and should always be available. By
rereading your error messages it seems unrelated to the systemd issue,
sorry for sidetracking you.

This can be a generic failure in loading plugins. If you start syslog-ng
with --module-registry you should see all plugins available to syslog-ng.
What is the output there? Look for the system source plugin specifically.

On the other hand, system() is just a convinience wrapper over unix-dgram
and unix-dgram drivers. So in most cases it can simply be replaced by

source s_local {
  unix-dgram("/dev/log");
};
On Feb 26, 2016 6:25 PM, "Girish Kumar" <girish.kumar at al-enterprise.com>
wrote:

> No I don’t have systemd or libsystemd-journal.so.   I have checked in
> /lib , sbin. I have not found here.
>
> Please let  me know how to check this? Also let me know what is the role
> of system () . Is it mandatory to have this?
>
>
>
>
>
> TOR #-> syslog-ng  -V
>
> syslog-ng 3.7.2
>
> Installer-Version: 3.7.2
>
> Revision:
>
> Compile-Date: Feb 24 2016 23:02:43
>
> *Available-Modules:
> json-plugin,kvformat,pseudofile,linux-kmsg-format,csvparser,system-source,afamqp,cryptofuncs,basicfuncs,afuser,afprog,graphite,afstomp,afsocket,syslogformat,confgen,dbparser,sdjournal,affile,afmongodb*
>
> Enable-Debug: off
>
> Enable-GProf: off
>
> Enable-Memtrace: off
>
> Enable-IPv6: on
>
> Enable-Spoof-Source: off
>
> Enable-TCP-Wrapper: off
>
> Enable-Linux-Caps: off
>
> TOR #->
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Girish
>
>
>
> *From:* syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu [mailto:
> syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] *On Behalf Of *Scheidler, Balázs
> *Sent:* Friday, February 26, 2016 12:15 PM
> *To:* Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [syslog-ng] Error while spawning the syslog-ng : "source
> plugin system not found "
>
>
>
> There was an issue that on newer systemd based platforms the
> systemd-journal () plugin doesn't load. You should see this on stderrr
> during startup. It is a pretty recent issue maybe #914?
>
> Do you have systemd? Do you have a separate libsystemd-journal.so or just
> a monolithic *libsystemd.so*?
>
> The problem is with supporting the latter one.
>
> On Feb 25, 2016 2:54 PM, "Girish Kumar" <girish.kumar at al-enterprise.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Gyu,
>
> My contents is default syslog-ng.conf which is generated after make install
>
> @version: 3.7
> @include "scl.conf"
>
> source s_local {
>     #system();
>     internal();
> };
>
> source s_network {
>     udp();
> };
>
> destination d_local {
>     file("/var/log/messages");
> };
>
> log {
>     source(s_local);
>
>     # uncomment this line to open port 514 to receive messages
>     #source(s_network);
>     destination(d_local);
> };
>
> And contents of scl.conf
> --------------------------
> @define scl-root "`syslog-ng-data`/include/scl"
> @define include-path "`include-path`:`syslog-ng-data`/include"
>
> @include 'scl/*/*.conf'
>
>
> Regards,
> Girish
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu [mailto:
> syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of PÁSZTOR György
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 5:46 PM
> To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Error while spawning the syslog-ng : "source
> plugin system not found "
>
> Hi,
>
> "Girish Kumar" <girish.kumar at al-enterprise.com> írta 2016-02-25 12:03-kor:
> > Could anybody  please update on the following.
> > Regards,
> > Girish
> >
> > From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu [mailto:
> syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Girish Kumar
> > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 1:30 PM
> > To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> > Subject: [syslog-ng] Error while spawning the syslog-ng : "source plugin
> system not found "
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I was successful  in  compilation  and installing syslog-ng
> >
> > While  spawning   syslog-ng,  I am getting  source plugin system not
> found.
> >
> > Following is the error. Please help me on this
> >
> > TOR #-> /sbin/syslog-ng
> > Error parsing source, source plugin system not found in
> //etc/syslog-ng.conf at line 10, column 2:
> >
> >         system();
> >         ^^^^^^
>
> What is the exact content of your syslog-ng.conf file?
> Did not you forget to include the scl?
>
> Cheers,
> Gyu
>
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