[syslog-ng] "Error checking uniqueness"

[Mitzki, András]

Hi David,

The issue with persist_name() option was mentioned (and solved) previously
in: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues/1275

Br,
Andras


On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:28 AM, David Hauck <davidh at netacquire.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in the processing or updating a distribution's v3.6.3 syslog-ng
> configuration to v3.9.1 and am running into some issues getting syslog-ng
> started. The first one was:
>
> Starting syslog-ng: Error parsing config, Error compiling template
> (Unknown template function "format-json") in /usr/share/syslog-ng/include/scl/cim/template.conf
> at line 23, column 32
>
> I found a reference online to fixing this by removing
> /usr/share/syslog-ng/include/scl/cim and this indeed got me past this
> error (hopefully this is an otherwise benign modification).
>
> I'm now stuck at the following error:
>
> Starting syslog-ng: [2017-02-22T08:07:50.101422] Error checking the
> uniqueness of the persist names, please override it with persist-name
> option. Shutting down.; persist_name='affile_dd_
> writers(/var/log/abc/audit_log)', location='/etc/syslog-ng.conf:128:33'
>
> Here's snippet from my configuration file that this error message
> references:
>
> ...
> destination d_abcaudit         { file("/var/log/abc/audit_log"
> template(t_NAFormat));        };
> destination d_abcaudit_Prio    { file("/var/log/abc/audit_log"
> template(t_NAFormat_Prio));   };
> --> destination d_abcaudit_IPtab   { file("/var/log/abc/audit_log"
> template(t_abcFormat_IPtab));   };
> destination d_abcmessage_Prio  { file("/dev/null"); };
> ...
>
> I wasn't able to find any documentation or guidance on the "persist-name"
> option. Any ideas on how I should go about fixing this error?
>
> Thanks,
> -David
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