Questions tagged [syslog-ng]

Question 1

I have an application sending messages using syslog perl module. syslog-ng client is capturing it by a custom filter that uses program name and writes it to a new file. I can see the log lines added ...

Question 2

I have a little experience with RHEL 6 from around 2016-2018 timeframe, but not much. When I took a new job in January 2025, I inherited a couple RHEL 8 systems. Those systems are not connected to a ...

Question 3

Yesterday I upgraded a VM (with very limited disk space) from Debian/bookworm to the shiny new Debian/trixie. One of the changes introduced was setting the frequency of status printout in syslog-ng to ...

Question 4

new to syslog-ng but been working on this issue for a few days and have nowhere to go. logs aren't really pointing me anywhere anymore that I can tell. I'm running syslog-ng as a container in an ...

Question 5

I noticed that the default datetime format for logs in /var/log/messages is mmm [d]d hh:mm:ss, for example: Jan 4 03:46:50 1.2.3.4 ntpclient[6952]: Failed resolving address to hostname pool.ntp.org: ...

Question 6

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.

Question 7

I am doing a project where the organisation uses syslog-ng for the central remote logging servers and this will surely not change. The application suite that I am developing on, is using Red Hat ...

Question 8

I am new to syslog-ng and was trying to fix the issue of an error which arises due to uniqueness of the persist names in syslog-ng, I see the below error in my syslog err Error checking the ...

Question 9

I am building an embedded Linux board with Buildroot (user manual here). I have syslog-ng running on the board. It's config file is specified in buildroot here: https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/...

Question 10

I am new to syslog-ng, and want to test writing to a syslog from an external device. The external device shows that it is "connected" to my syslog on port 516. However, on my CentOS7 host ...

Question 11

I'm trying to configure syslog-ng in an embedded distro. I added the syslog-ng package. I was expecting the /var/log/ files to include their log severity / log level, but it isn't to. Any way to ...

Question 12

I have an Ubuntu server with sftpd running where /var/data/chroot/ is an NFS mount from a remote central NFS server, and each sftpd user's chroot home is /var/data/chroot/<username>/ and every ...

Question 13

I wanted to switch logging from rsyslog to syslog-ng, but after configuration and startup, it faield to start up. This is the log file I am getting, but I cant find any clues there what is wrong: rrr-...

Question 14

I have stunnel v5.44 (Ubuntu 18.04 v3:5.44-1ubuntu3) configured on a client to connect to a server in a screened subnet. The remote host has syslog configured to listen for logfiles over the stunnel ...

Question 15

Does the syslog-ng has its own rotating mechanism? I am new to auditing and linux and I though I could use logrotate but I noticed that I need to restart the syslog-ng daemon every time when I use it ...

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Questions tagged [syslog-ng]

syslog-ng client is saving a message twice

SELinux causing issue with syslog-ng

recommended frequency for syslog-ng's "stats" logging

cisco parser dropping logs

How do I change the date/time format in syslog-ng from `mmm [d]d hh:mm:ss` to `yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss`?

How do I check which conf file was loaded by syslog-ng when starting?

Is rsyslog compatible with syslog-ng?

Issue with uniqueness of the persist names in syslog-ng

Buildroot: syslog-ng logs into the "/var/log/messages.1" file instead of "/var/log/messages"

syslog-ng not writing to file

syslog-ng does not include severity in its lines

Howto log multiple sftpd server's activity which user's chrooted home is on shared NFS?

Switched from rsyslog to syslog-ng, but its not starting up

Any way to keep Stunnel from blowing up my logfiles?

internal logrotate mechanism in syslog-ng

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