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Old 5th April 2013
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CyberJet CyberJet is offline
Real Name: Ramon
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Thanks for the great advise. I will consider them words of wisdom. I did as you suggested and edit the rc.conf.local and added the following:
Code:
syslog_ng_flags=
syslog_ng_flags="-p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid" /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng ${syslog_ng_flags}
I checked /var/log/messages and I see this:
Code:
Apr  5 13:54:59 Petirre syslog-ng[8784]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:54:59 Petirre syslog-ng[8784]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:55:00 Petirre syslog-ng[16018]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:55:00 Petirre syslog-ng[16018]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:55:01 Petirre syslog-ng[24885]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:55:01 Petirre syslog-ng[24885]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:55:01 Petirre syslog-ng[24848]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:55:01 Petirre syslog-ng[24848]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:55:01 Petirre syslog-ng[16772]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:55:01 Petirre syslog-ng[16772]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:55:01 Petirre syslog-ng[1063]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Apr  5 13:55:01 Petirre syslog-ng[1063]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.1.4'
Here is ps -aux
Code:
root     23822  0.0  0.0   732   992 ??  I      1:54PM    0:00.00 supervising syslog-ng (syslog-ng)
root     23205  0.0  0.1  1004  2320 ??  Is     1:54PM    0:00.04 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
_dhcp     9792  0.0  0.0   716   268 ??  Ss     1:54PM    0:00.00 dhclient: bge0 (dhclient)
root      9067  0.0  0.0   460   792 ??  Is     1:54PM    0:00.00 syslogd: [priv] (syslogd)
_syslogd 23183  0.0  0.0   468   764 ??  I      1:54PM    0:00.02 /usr/sbin/syslogd -a /var/www/dev/log -a /var/empty/dev/lo
root     17007  0.0  0.0   620   464 ??  Is     1:54PM    0:00.00 pflogd: [priv] (pflogd)
_pflogd  29014  0.0  0.0   684   324 ??  S      1:54PM    0:00.01 pflogd: [running] -s 160 -i pflog0 -f /var/log/pflog (pflo
root      8784  0.0  0.1   976  2352 ??  Is     1:54PM    0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
root      4461  0.0  0.1   748  1220 ??  I      1:54PM    0:00.01 supervising syslog-ng (syslog-ng)
root      5802  0.0  0.1   616  1224 ??  Is     1:55PM    0:00.01 /usr/sbin/sshd
root     16018  0.0  0.1   864  2452 ??  Is     1:55PM    0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
root     21738  0.0  0.1   652  1224 ??  I      1:55PM    0:00.01 supervising syslog-ng (syslog-ng)
root     15999  0.0  0.1  1488  1592 ??  Ss     1:55PM    0:00.03 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
root     24885  0.0  0.1   800  2460 ??  Is     1:55PM    0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
root     31643  0.0  0.1   592  1232 ??  I      1:55PM    0:00.01 supervising syslog-ng (syslog-ng)
root      5333  0.0  0.0   408   792 ??  Is     1:55PM    0:00.01 /usr/sbin/inetd
root     24848  0.0  0.1   788  2468 ??  Is     1:55PM    0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
root     24131  0.0  0.1   576  1232 ??  I      1:55PM    0:00.01 supervising syslog-ng (syslog-ng)
_sndio    3263  0.0  0.0   396   424 ??  I<s    1:55PM    0:00.00 /usr/bin/sndiod
root     16772  0.0  0.1   952  2464 ??  Is     1:55PM    0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
root     10742  0.0  0.1   740  1232 ??  I      1:55PM    0:00.01 supervising syslog-ng (syslog-ng)
root      2422  0.0  0.0   520   920 ??  Is     1:55PM    0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron
root     17846  0.0  0.1   564  1224 ??  I      1:55PM    0:00.01 supervising syslog-ng (syslog-ng)
root      1063  0.0  0.1   792  2464 ??  Is     1:55PM    0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng
Can I safely infer that syslog-ng is working properly?

Thanks again!

Last edited by ocicat; 5th April 2013 at 06:23 PM. Reason: Please use [code] & [/code] tags when posting command output.
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