I am running syslog-ng on debian.
How do I check which conf file was loaded upon startup?
Neither
systemctl status syslog-ng nor
systemctl show syslog-ng tell me.
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By default, syslog-ng loads the configuration from a hard-coded default configuration path (you can check that path with the syslog-ng --help command, it's next to the --cfgfile option.
This can be changed via the command line with the mentioned option.
If you want to see all the configuration files loaded recursively (@include), you can run syslog-ng in debug mode:
$ syslog-ng -Fed Starting to read include file; filename='/usr/share/syslog-ng/include/scl/sudo/sudo.conf', depth='2' ... If you want to see the full preprocessed configuration of a running syslog-ng instance, you can query it with the sbin/syslog-ng-ctl config --preprocessed command.
If you want to ensure that the correct version of the configuration is running in syslog-ng (there might be a newer config on the disk that hasn't been applied yet), you can use the following command:
sbin/syslog-ng-ctl config --verify Configuration file matches active configuration You can also get a hash or identifier for similar purposes:
sbin/syslog-ng-ctl config --id 
- Btw, the original author and the top contributors of syslog-ng have created a hard fork: AxoSyslog. Take a look if you're interested in new features, improvements, packages, container images, etc.: axoflow.com/axosyslog-syslog-ng-forkMrAnno– MrAnno2024-06-04 12:04:44 +00:00Commented Jun 4, 2024 at 12:04
try syslog-ng-ctl config That should display the currently used configuration (I'm not sure if it displays where it was loaded from) https://axoflow.com/docs/axosyslog-core/app-man-syslog-ng/syslog-ng-ctl.1/#displaying-the-configuration
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/usr/sbin/syslog-ng-ctl config- apparently not in my path. As you mentioned, it doesn't appear to tell me which file it was loaded from. There is also/usr/sbin/syslog-ng-ctl list-files, but for me it returnsNo files available, even though there is a loaded configuration. Strange...skeetastax– skeetastax2024-05-31 00:39:58 +00:00Commented May 31, 2024 at 0:39