[syslog-ng] syslog-ng wont start - please help

Thu May 4 23:25:24 UTC 2017

Hello Peter/ team, I am stuck with issue since four days, spent hours and
hours,  I am unable find a cause, I compiled syslog-ng from source and
resolved all the dependencies, when I get to start it, it wont start.  here
is the out put, please have a look at it. Any help is appreciated.

OS version : CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)

[root at my-host ~]# systemctl start   syslog-ng.service

Job for syslog-ng.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See
"systemctl status syslog-ng.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

[root at my-host ~]# systemctl status syslog-ng.service

● syslog-ng.service - System Logger Daemon

   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)

   Active: activating (start) since Thu 2017-05-04 16:13:44 PDT; 29s ago

     Docs: man:syslog-ng(8)

 Main PID: 5089 (syslog-ng)

   CGroup: /system.slice/syslog-ng.service

           └─5089 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F -p /var/run/syslogd.pid

May 04 16:13:44 my-host systemd[1]: Starting System Logger Daemon...

[root at my-host ~]# journalctl -xe

May 04 16:10:01 my-host systemd[1]: Starting Session 348 of user root.

-- Subject: Unit session-348.scope has begun start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- Unit session-348.scope has begun starting up.

May 04 16:10:21 my-host nslcd[1289]: [18832f] <group/member="root"> failed
to bind to LDAP server ldap://ldap.vip.slc.e

May 04 16:10:21 my-host nslcd[1289]: [18832f] <group/member="root"> no
available LDAP server found: Can't contact LDAP

May 04 16:10:21 my-host nslcd[1289]: [18832f] <group/member="root"> no
available LDAP server found: Server is unavailab

May 04 16:10:21 my-host CROND[5035]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)

May 04 16:10:23 my-host polkitd[676]: Registered Authentication Agent for
unix-process:5039:17396299 (system bus name :

May 04 16:10:23 my-host systemd[1]: Stopping Flush Journal to Persistent
Storage...

-- Subject: Unit systemd-journal-flush.service has begun shutting down

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- Unit systemd-journal-flush.service has begun shutting down.

May 04 16:10:23 my-host systemd-journal[2711]: Journal stopped

-- Subject: The journal has been stopped

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- The system journal process has shut down and closed all currently

-- active journal files.

May 04 16:10:23 my-host systemd-journal[5046]: Runtime journal is using
16.0M (max allowed 391.1M, trying to leave 586.

May 04 16:10:23 my-host systemd-journald[2711]: Received SIGTERM from PID 1
(systemd).

May 04 16:10:23 my-host systemd-journal[5046]: Journal started

-- Subject: The journal has been started

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- The system journal process has started up, opened the journal

-- files for writing and is now ready to process requests.

May 04 16:10:23 my-host polkitd[676]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for
unix-process:5039:17396299 (system bus name

May 04 16:10:23 my-host systemd[1]: Starting Flush Journal to Persistent
Storage...

-- Subject: Unit systemd-journal-flush.service has begun start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- Unit systemd-journal-flush.service has begun starting up.

May 04 16:10:23 my-host systemd[1]: Started Flush Journal to Persistent
Storage.

-- Subject: Unit systemd-journal-flush.service has finished start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- Unit systemd-journal-flush.service has finished starting up.

--

-- The start-up result is done.

May 04 16:12:14 my-host polkitd[676]: Registered Authentication Agent for
unix-process:5066:17407401 (system bus name :

May 04 16:12:14 my-host systemd[1]: Starting System Logger Daemon...

-- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has begun start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- Unit syslog-ng.service has begun starting up.

May 04 16:13:08 my-host nslcd[1289]: [528108] <group/member="postfix">
failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://ldap.vip.sl

May 04 16:13:08 my-host nslcd[1289]: [528108] <group/member="postfix"> no
available LDAP server found: Can't contact LD

May 04 16:13:08 my-host nslcd[1289]: [528108] <group/member="postfix"> no
available LDAP server found: Server is unavai

May 04 16:13:44 my-host systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service start operation timed
out. Terminating.

May 04 16:13:44 my-host systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logger Daemon.

-- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has failed

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- Unit syslog-ng.service has failed.

--

-- The result is failed.

May 04 16:13:44 my-host systemd[1]: Unit syslog-ng.service entered failed
state.

May 04 16:13:44 my-host systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service failed.

May 04 16:13:44 my-host polkitd[676]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for
unix-process:5066:17407401 (system bus name

May 04 16:13:44 my-host systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service holdoff time over,
scheduling restart.

May 04 16:13:44 my-host systemd[1]: Starting System Logger Daemon...

-- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has begun start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- Unit syslog-ng.service has begun starting up.

[root at my-host ~]# ps -ef | grep syslog-ng

root      5089     1  0 16:13 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F -p
/var/run/syslogd.pid

root      5103 32598  0 16:14 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto syslog-ng

[root at my-host ~]# systemctl status syslog-ng.service

● syslog-ng.service - System Logger Daemon

   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)

   Active: activating (start) since Thu 2017-05-04 16:13:44 PDT; 1min 6s ago

     Docs: man:syslog-ng(8)

 Main PID: 5089 (syslog-ng)

   CGroup: /system.slice/syslog-ng.service

           └─5089 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F -p /var/run/syslogd.pid

May 04 16:13:44 my-host systemd[1]: Starting System Logger Daemon...

[root at my-host ~]#cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service

[Unit]

Description=System Logger Daemon

Documentation=man:syslog-ng(8)

[Service]

Type=notify

ExecStart=/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F $SYSLOGNG_OPTS -p /var/run/syslogd.pid

ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID

EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/syslog-ng

EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/syslog-ng

StandardOutput=journal

StandardError=journal

Restart=on-failure

Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

-- 
Thanks,
Vijay Amrut.
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