syslog-ng logging stopped

Peter Boosten peter at boosten.org
Sat Mar 12 22:12:52 UTC 2011


That probably means that it's not syslog-ng causing the problems.

Maybe some firewall rule?

Peter

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On 12 mrt 2011, at 22:40, Len Conrad <LConrad at Go2France.com> wrote:

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>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina <inigoortizdeurbina at gmail.com>
>> Date:  Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:12:49 +0100
>>
>>> Whats in dmesg and /var/log/? You shared extensive and excellent
>>> troubleshooting info but didnt spot none of these.
>>>
>>> Keep us updated im sure im not the only one puzzled :)
>>>
>>> On 3/11/11, Len Conrad <lconrad at go2france.com> wrote:
>>>> uname -a
>>>> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
>>>>
>>>> syslog-ng --version
>>>> syslog-ng 2.0.10
>>>>
>>>> change date on syslog-ng.conf is  "Apr 20  2009"
>>>>
>>>> syslog-ng been running untouched for that long. Millions of lines/ 
>>>> per day
>>>> log from 10 source machine.
>>>>
>>>> about 00:20 today Friday,  all syslogging to syslog-ng stopped.
>>>>
>>>> sockstat -4 shows udp/tcp 514 listening
>>>>
>>>> chkrootkit  shows nothing wrong
>>>>
>>>> stop syslog-ng
>>>>
>>>> then pkg_delete, and then
>>>>
>>>> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng2
>>>>
>>>> make && make install
>>>>
>>>> start it,
>>>>
>>>> no change
>>>>
>>>> I rebooted the syslog server.  no change
>>>>
>>>> trafshow -i bce0 -n
>>>>
>>>> then filter 514
>>>>
>>>> ... shows 100KBs arriving from our syslog clients.
>>>>
>>>> tshark capture "port 514" on syslog-ng box shows plenty of  
>>>> traffic arriving
>>>> with untouched pf rules active,
>>>>
>>>> pfctl -d   no change so pfctl -e
>>>>
>>>> df shows plenty of disk space for /var
>>>>
>>>> suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Len
>>>>
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>> =============
>>
>> dmesg -a | less showed nothing
>>
>> /var/log/console.log showed nothing
>>
>> /var/log/messages showed nothing
>
> btw, I later replaced syslog-ng with syslogd, listening UDP:514.  no  
> lines in messages, maillog.
>
> Len
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