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!