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Converting syslog-ng 3.0? format to 3.2 format
Just rebooted my system to this warning
:: Starting Syslog-NG [BUSY]
WARNING: Configuration file format is too old, please update ...
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Rsyslog Central Log Host
I'm moving from a syslog-ng central log host to rsyslog. I can't even seem to find syslog-ng in the CentOS repos these days. I want to filter logs by hostname and facility.
Here is how I do it in ...
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How to exclude given lines in syslog-ng?
I need to exclude a given line in the messages file:
Oct 25 04:09:23 SERVERNAME PFILTER-DROP: IN=ifeth4 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA SRC=192.168.202.4 DST=192.168.202.255 ...
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Configure & Compile syslog-ng from source, got: Threads are not supported on this platform
I have configure, gmake, and gmake installed syslog-ng-3.4.0alpha1 with eventlog-0.2.12 and other dependencies.
From then output of the ./configure --prefix=/syslog --with-gnu-ld, I can see that the ...
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Starting syslog-ng
I've recently installed syslog-ng but am confused about how to start it (on Fedora).
I do:
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng start
which reports that it's started ok. However, it doesn't actually do anything ...
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Can I send the ouput of a log to a command as an argument to an option in syslog-ng?
According to the documentation I can execute a program somewhat like so:
destination knotifier { program('/path/to/executable'; };
And it will send the log to the stdin of the executable. But what ...
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syslog-ng difference between “not message(something)” and “not match(something)”?
What is the difference between these two?:
filter f_avc { not message(something); };
and:
filter f_avc { not match(something); };
it's hard to google for these types of questions :D
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syslog-ng ignores MSSQL database name
syslog-ng ignores the database defined in syslog-ng.conf and instead uses the default database of the user when logging to MSSQL destination.
destination d_mssql {
sql(type(mssql)
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