syslog-ng logging stopped

Len Conrad LConrad at Go2France.com
Sun Mar 13 19:19:00 UTC 2011


>May it be a permission issue (fs or /dev/kmem or the like)?

syslog-ng or syslogd as root doesn't enable log writing.

> Can you
>manually start syslog-ng or syslogd with verbose flags enabled?

I edited rc.d/syslog-ng   script to add -d

of course, nothing is logged, so -d doesn't help.

Len



>Man, you really stumbled upon something weird!
>
>On 3/12/11, Len Conrad <LConrad at go2france.com> wrote:
>> At 03:52 PM 3/12/2011, you wrote:
>>>That probably means that it's not syslog-ng causing the problems.
>>
>> right
>>
>>>Maybe some firewall rule?
>>
>> I run pf.  pfctl -d didn't allow logging to start.  trafshow and tshark
>> showed
>> all the traffic hitting port 514, not being blocked.
>>
>> Len
>>
>>
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