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

Sat May 6 06:07:34 UTC 2017

You can either use the --prefix option that sets everything, or the more
specific --sysconfdir

See configure --help for other options where syslog-ng would be looking for
its files.

If you look at deb or rpm packaging scripts, those options are controlling
paths.

On May 5, 2017 18:32, "vijay amruth" <vijayamruth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody:
> Two quick questons,
>
> .conf files got under /usr/loca/etc when compiled is there any way to say/
> set it under /etc/sysconfig-ng during compilation and how de we compile
> without notify support ?
>
> Thank you,
> Have a nice day!
>
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:51 PM, vijay amruth <vijayamruth at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Awesome!!!!
>> Right on dot. I commented that entry, restarted the process and it
>> started working. Thank you so much!!!!!!!
>>
>> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:17 PM, Scheidler, Balázs <
>> balazs.scheidler at balabit.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The unit file states type=notify whereas syslog-ng may be compiled
>>> without notify support.
>>>
>>> That may explain the situation that syslog-ng is running but systemd
>>> thinks it didnt start up.
>>>
>>> On May 5, 2017 1:25 AM, "vijay amruth" <vijayamruth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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 <(1)%20739%206299> (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-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 <(1)%20739%206299> (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 <(1)%20740%207401> (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 <(1)%20740%207401> (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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ____________________________________________________________
>>> __________________
>>> Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng
>>> Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support
>>> /documentation/?product=syslog-ng
>>> FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Vijay Amrut.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Vijay Amrut.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
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