Questions tagged [syslog-ng]
Questions specific to the syslog-ng logging solution (https://syslog-ng.org/). Use this tag if your question relates to configuring or using syslog-ng, or if you'd like to know if you can solve a particular logging problem with syslog-ng.
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Understand logging in Linux
As I understand, Linux kernel logs to /proc/kmsg file(mostly hardware-related messages) and /dev/log socket? Anywhere else? Are other applications also able to send messages to /proc/kmsg or /dev/log? ...
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syslog-ng service not starting with systemd but command works fine
I have a freshly installed version on CentOS 7 once which I have installed syslog-ng from the EPEL repositories.
~: yum list | grep syslog
syslog-ng.x86_64 3.5.6-1.el7 ...
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Failover with Syslog-ng?
Is it possible to set up a failover mechanism with Syslog-NG opensource edition?
I want that the syslog-ng Daemon logs to a remote Loghost and switches to an other server if the first would go down ...
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Cannot start syslog-ng when apparmor is running
I am unable to start syslog-ng when apparmor is running because it complains it is unable to find the system plugin:
service apparmor start
* Starting AppArmor ...
* Loading AppArmor profiles ......
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Message forwarding with de-duplication - SyslogNG
Based on the advice from answer that says: Simply adding both servers and always write to both is the easiest one,
we have setup syslog-NG server on two machines that receive same syslog message and ...
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SyslogNG-How to optimise filter and log statements? [closed]
Below is the current configuration for Syslog-NG logging, locally,
source s_network {
udp(
flags(syslog_protocol)
keep_hostname(yes)
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