[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng, centos7 and systemd seem to hate each other

[Clayton Dukes]

…or at the very least, say bad things when the other is not looking :)

I did a bit of googling for this and found other people with similar issues, but could not find the fix.
This is on a cos7.0 box (not 7.2) running syslog-ng v3.9 (user did have v3.5 but I tried upgrading him to resolve this).
If I run syslog-ng -Fdve it works fine and sends everything to our python program destination
However, if I use the systemd script provided with syslog-ng, then I get nothing.
If I tell sng to just log to a file (no filters, etc.), then it works.
If I tell sng to just use the program dest (no filters, etc.) it does NOT work.

If I do a 'systemctl stop syslog-ng' and then just simply type 'syslog-ng' (no foreground, debug, etc. switches) from the command line, it works fine.
Rather confusing, but I can't see why the systemctl file is not working as it should.
Any ideas?

Other references:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/syslog-ng
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=187057
http://serverfault.com/questions/760383/syslog-ng-working-as-foreground-process-but-not-as-daemon




-Clayton
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