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Date:      Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:40:03 -0600
From:      Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syslog-ng logging stopped
Message-ID:  <201103122240713.SM06140@W500.Go2France.com>
In-Reply-To: <201103112331.AA2596602004@mail.Go2France.com>
References:  <201103112331.AA2596602004@mail.Go2France.com>

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>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina <inigoortizdeurbina@gmail.com>
>Date:  Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:12:49 +0100
>
>>Whats in dmesg and /var/log/? You shared extensive and excellent
>>troubleshooting info but didnt spot none of these.
>>
>>Keep us updated im sure im not the only one puzzled :)
>>
>>On 3/11/11, Len Conrad <lconrad@go2france.com> wrote:
>>> uname -a
>>> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
>>>
>>> syslog-ng --version
>>> syslog-ng 2.0.10
>>>
>>> change date on syslog-ng.conf is  "Apr 20  2009"
>>>
>>> syslog-ng been running untouched for that long. Millions of lines/per day
>>> log from 10 source machine.
>>>
>>> about 00:20 today Friday,  all syslogging to syslog-ng stopped.
>>>
>>> sockstat -4 shows udp/tcp 514 listening
>>>
>>> chkrootkit  shows nothing wrong
>>>
>>> stop syslog-ng
>>>
>>> then pkg_delete, and then
>>>
>>> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng2
>>>
>>> make && make install
>>>
>>> start it,
>>>
>>> no change
>>>
>>> I rebooted the syslog server.  no change
>>>
>>> trafshow -i bce0 -n
>>>
>>> then filter 514
>>>
>>> ... shows 100KBs arriving from our syslog clients.
>>>
>>> tshark capture "port 514" on syslog-ng box shows plenty of traffic arriving
>>> with untouched pf rules active,
>>>
>>> pfctl -d   no change so pfctl -e
>>>
>>> df shows plenty of disk space for /var
>>>
>>> suggestions?
>>>
>>> Len
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina Cazenave
>>http://www.twitter.com/ioc32
>
>=============
>
>dmesg -a | less showed nothing
>
>/var/log/console.log showed nothing
>
>/var/log/messages showed nothing

btw, I later replaced syslog-ng with syslogd, listening UDP:514.  no lines in messages, maillog.

Len






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