[syslog-ng] Installing Syslog-NG 3.7 on CentOS 7

Várady, László laszlo.varady at balabit.com
Thu May 12 13:43:00 CEST 2016


Hi,

Did you stop the syslog-ng daemon (systemctl stop syslog-ng) before running
'syslog-ng -Fevd' manually?

--
László Várady

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Ivan Adji - Krstev <akivanradix at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OK so i get syslog-ng running with the default configuration.... this
> have some problem with the TLS configuration.
>
> What i have done i have create the certificate procedures ( self signed
> certificate ) on my laptop following this article:
> <https://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-tutorial-mutual-auth-tls/html/create-server-certificate.html>
> https://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-tutorial-mutual-auth-tls/html/create-server-certificate.html
>
> So i generate the server certificate on my laptop and the other
> certificates for the clients. I copy them and put the configuration.
>
> Any other configuration in syslog-ng.conf to put and try to working with
> TLS ?
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> On 05/12/2016 12:42 PM, jrhendri wrote:
>
> This has to be something very basic.
> Have you tried checking if another syslog server is running?
> ps -aef |grep syslog
>
> Assuming this shows nothing, try a very simple syslog-ng config file and a
> manual start on the command line.
>
> Make sure you check all the things in your configuration that your copy
> should open beforehand.
>
> This should narrow down the problem I hope :-)
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Ivan Adji - Krstev <akivanradix at gmail.com> <akivanradix at gmail.com>
> Date: 5/12/16 5:26 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Installing Syslog-NG 3.7 on CentOS 7
>
> So i have install EPEL and i have install syslog-ng and mongodb and when i
> start the syslog-ng service with *syslog-ng -Fevd *command i have the
> following error AGAIN :).
>
> Im not sure what is it and how to prevent it and what to do. But i really
> need this to work :(.
>
> [2016-05-12T05:21:10.739940] Error binding socket;
> addr='AF_INET(0.0.0.0:6514)', error='Address already in use (98)'
> [2016-05-12T05:21:10.739973] Error initializing message pipeline;
>
>
> [root at syslogserver loganalyzer]# netstat -tupl
> Active Internet connections (only servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address
> State       PID/Program name
> tcp        0      0 localhost:27017         0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN      1352/mongod
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:syslog-tls      0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN      11377/syslog-ng
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:ssh             0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN      8562/sshd
> tcp        0      0 localhost:smtp          0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN      1778/master
> tcp6       0      0 [::]:http               [::]:*
> LISTEN      11264/httpd
> tcp6       0      0 [::]:ssh                [::]:*
> LISTEN      8562/sshd
> tcp6       0      0 localhost:smtp          [::]:*
> LISTEN      1778/master
> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:bootpc          0.0.0.0:*
> 638/dhclient
> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:60094           0.0.0.0:*
> 638/dhclient
> udp6       0      0 [::]:3126
> [::]:*                              638/dhclient
>
>
>
> [root at syslogserver loganalyzer]# lsof | grep LISTEN
> mongod     1352        mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  1393  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2028  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2033  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2034  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2138  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2139  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2141  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2148  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2404  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2446  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2447  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2448  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2449  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2450  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352  2451  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> mongod     1352 11380  mongod    6u     IPv4              17057
> 0t0        TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
> master     1778          root   13u     IPv4              15893
> 0t0        TCP localhost:smtp (LISTEN)
> master     1778          root   14u     IPv6              15894
> 0t0        TCP localhost:smtp (LISTEN)
> sshd       8562          root    3u     IPv4              23963
> 0t0        TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
> sshd       8562          root    4u     IPv6              23965
> 0t0        TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
> httpd     11264          root    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
> httpd     11265        apache    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
> httpd     11267        apache    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
> httpd     11268        apache    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
> httpd     11269        apache    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
> httpd     11270        apache    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
> httpd     11275        apache    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
> httpd     11276        apache    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
> httpd     11277        apache    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
> httpd     11278        apache    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
> syslog-ng 11377          root   14u     IPv4              34906
> 0t0        TCP *:syslog-tls (LISTEN)
> syslog-ng 11377 11378    root   14u     IPv4              34906
> 0t0        TCP *:syslog-tls (LISTEN)
> syslog-ng 11377 11541    root   14u     IPv4              34906
> 0t0        TCP *:syslog-tls (LISTEN)
> httpd     11384        apache    4u     IPv6              32697
> 0t0        TCP *:http (LISTEN)
>
>
>
> and the source config is as follow:
>
> source s_sys {
>     system();
>     unix-stream("/dev/log");
>     internal();
>     network(
>     port(6514)
> #       tcp(port(5140));
> #    file("/proc/kmsg" log_prefix("kernel: "));
>     transport("tls")
>     tls( key_file("/etc/syslog-ng/cert.d/serverkey.pem")
>     cert_file("/etc/syslog-ng/cert.d/servercert.pem")
>     ca_dir("/etc/syslog-ng/ca.d"))
>     );
>     };
>
>
>
>
> destination d_mongodb {
>     mongodb(
> #    servers("localhost:27017")
> #        database("syslog")
> #    uri('mongodb://localhost/syslog-ng')
>     collection("messages")
>     value-pairs(
>     scope("selected-macros" "nv-pairs" "sdata")
>     )
>     );
>     };
>
>
> Kind regards
> Ivan
>
> On 05/10/2016 01:35 PM, Czanik, Péter wrote:
>
> Do you also have EPEL? The RHEL7/CentOS7 repo is built against EPEL,
> as some of the dependencies are missing from the base distribution:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
> Bye,
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com> <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> Balabit / syslog-ng upstreamhttp://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Ivan Adji - Krstev<akivanradix at gmail.com> <akivanradix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi i note this error of mine but i try the other one:
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng37/repo/epel-7/czanik-syslog-ng37-epel-7.repo
> And i have the similar errors when ever i try to install on new CentOS
>
> The procedure im doing is: Fresh installation of CentOS
> yum update
> yum install httpd php vim wget
> then install mongodb ( add repo )
> then install syslog-ng ( add repo )
>
> I'm using: CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
> And im having the following repos:
>
> [root at syslogserver ~]# yum repolist
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: mirror.switch.ch
>  * extras: mirror.switch.ch
>  * updates: mirror.switch.ch
> repo id
> repo name
> status
> base/7/x86_64
> CentOS-7 - Base
> 9,007
> czanik-syslog-ng37/x86_64
> Copr repo for syslog-ng37 owned by czanik
> 59
> extras/7/x86_64
> CentOS-7 - Extras
> 266
> mongodb-org-3.2/7
> MongoDB Repository
> 35
> updates/7/x86_64
> CentOS-7 - Updates
> 1,437
> repolist: 10,804
>
>
> [root at syslogserver ~]# yum install syslog-ng
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: mirror.switch.ch
>  * extras: mirror.switch.ch
>  * updates: mirror.switch.ch
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package syslog-ng.x86_64 0:3.7.3-3.el7.centos will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: ivykis >= 0.36.1 for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: libivykis.so.0(IVYKIS_0.29)(64bit) for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: libivykis.so.0(IVYKIS_0.30)(64bit) for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: libevtlog.so.0()(64bit) for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: libivykis.so.0()(64bit) for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: libnet.so.1()(64bit) for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package libnet.x86_64 0:1.1.6-7.el7 will be installed
> ---> Package syslog-ng.x86_64 0:3.7.3-3.el7.centos will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: ivykis >= 0.36.1 for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: libivykis.so.0(IVYKIS_0.29)(64bit) for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: libivykis.so.0(IVYKIS_0.30)(64bit) for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: libevtlog.so.0()(64bit) for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: libivykis.so.0()(64bit) for package:
> syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64 (czanik-syslog-ng37)
>            Requires: libivykis.so.0(IVYKIS_0.30)(64bit)
> Error: Package: syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64 (czanik-syslog-ng37)
>            Requires: libivykis.so.0()(64bit)
> Error: Package: syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64 (czanik-syslog-ng37)
>            Requires: ivykis >= 0.36.1
> Error: Package: syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64 (czanik-syslog-ng37)
>            Requires: libevtlog.so.0()(64bit)
> Error: Package: syslog-ng-3.7.3-3.el7.centos.x86_64 (czanik-syslog-ng37)
>            Requires: libivykis.so.0(IVYKIS_0.29)(64bit)
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>
>
> Any idea ?
>
>
> On 05/09/2016 04:09 PM, Czanik, Péter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> You should add the repository using the file:https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng37/repo/epel-7/czanik-syslog-ng37-epel-7.repo
> to yum and not just download individual packages. You can use then
> "yum install syslog-ng" which will also download all necessary
> dependencies.
>
> Bye,
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com> <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> Balabit / syslog-ng upstreamhttp://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Ivan Adji - Krstev<akivanradix at gmail.com> <akivanradix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have the following errors when i try to install Syslog-NG 3.7 on CentOS 7
>
>
> I have problem when i try to install Syslog-NG 3.7 on CentOS 7.
>
> The following errors i get:
>
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: syslog-ng-3.7.3-1.el6.x86_64 (czanik-syslog-ng37epel6)
>            Requires: libevtlog.so.0()(64bit)
> Error: Package: syslog-ng-3.7.3-1.el6.x86_64 (czanik-syslog-ng37epel6)
>            Requires: libpcre.so.0()(64bit)
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>
>
> Any hints on this ?
>
> Kind regards
> Ivan
>
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