[syslog-ng] Issue with syslog-ng and Windows Server 2012

[Evan Rempel]

Let me know how the support ticket works out for you. I have the same issue at my site!

Evan.

On 01/15/2016 12:58 PM, Scheidler, Balázs wrote:
>
> How do you run syslog-ng on Windows? Is it a PE binary? For that you can get support through official support channels. I can help you to the proper contact if you want.
> Or is it a cygwin issue?
>
> On Jan 15, 2016 5:41 PM, "Artyom Gavrichenkov" <ximaera at gmail.com <mailto:ximaera at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi all,
>
>     Since Windows Vista (and Server 2012), in NTFS, file size is updated
>     not when its contents are being flushed to disk, but when the last
>     handle to the corresponding file object is closed. More on that here:
>     https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20111226-00/?p=8813
>
>     What this means in practice is that an application log file might
>     already be quite large, but its reported file size will still be zero
>     unless some other application will open(), read() and then close() it.
>     And seems like it breaks syslog-ng’s source() file() handler in case
>     the filename in file() arguments contains wildcards.
>
>     Could anyone please look into it?
>
>     | Artyom Gavrichenkov
>     | gpg: fa1c670e
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