[syslog-ng] unidirectional unix-stream

[Jim Hendrick]

Do you have access to the sourcode of otherapp ?

My first guess would be to look at the options of how each end handles the
socket.

Jim


On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Fabien Wernli <wernli at in2p3.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use the unix-stream destination to send data to another
> application which opens the socket in line mode. The problem is that both
> ends complain about the connection breaking all the time:
>
>     syslog-ng[31002]: Syslog connection broken; fd='24',
> server='AF_UNIX(/var/run/otherapp.sock)', time_reopen='60'
>     otherapp[123445]: failed to read from socket #10: Connection reset by
> peer
>
> I tracked down the problem to the fact that otherapp sends some data after
> receiving a line from syslog-ng: "data ok", and syslog-ng doesn't seem to
> like that.
>
> If I set up a unidirectional proxy (that filters out upstream "data ok")
> between syslog-ng and otherapp everything works fine:
>
>     socat -u UNIX-LISTEN:/tmp/proxy.sock,fork UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/
> otherapp.sock
>
> Am I doing something wrong here, or is this a known limitation of
> syslog-ng?
>
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