[CentOS] syslog-ng 2.1.4 - file sources are read only when reload or restart is performed?

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2014-07-17, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 7/17/2014 6:19 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote:
>> The problem is that changes in /logs/stdout.log are only visible in
>> /var/log/20140717/stdout when I perform /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload or
>> restart. I tried several settings of flush_*, log_fifo_size and follow_freq
>> but with no luck :D
>>
>> Is it a problem withe the version that I use (quite old :D ) or is there a
>> mistake in my configuration maybe?
>
> afaik, syslog-ng isn't part of CentOS 5, and there is no top level 
> directory /logs/ at all, logging is done to /var/log and the syslog 
> config files are in /etc, so you must have a heavily customized system 
> configuration. Since noone can possibly know what all you've done, it 
> seems like you're on your own here.
>

syslog-ng is available in EPEL for RHEL 5. Interestingly, it appears to
log to /var/lib/syslog-ng. (I don't use syslog-ng; I'm just going by the
output of 'repoquery -l syslog-ng'.)

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Liam