hi:
I have just installed syslog-ng in my FC4 system.

The following is part of syslog-ng.conf file:
destination messages {
file("/var/log/archive/messages/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY"
template("$ISODATE <$FACILITY.$PRIORITY> $HOST $MSG\n")
template_escape(no)
);
};

It works fine. However, it seems that tons of annoying entries generated by syslog-ng appear every 30 seconds:

2006-07-28T15:34:40+05:00 <syslog.notice> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[17587]: Reaping unused destination files; template='/var/log/archive/messages/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY'
2006-07-28T15:35:10+05:00 <syslog.notice> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[17587]: Reaping unused destination files; template='/var/log/archive/messages/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY'
2006-07-28T15:35:40+05:00 <syslog.notice> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[17587]: Reaping unused destination files; template='/var/log/archive/messages/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY'
2006-07-28T15:36:10+05:00 <syslog.notice> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[17587]: Reaping unused destination files; template='/var/log/archive/messages/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY'
2006-07-28T15:36:40+05:00 <syslog.notice> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[17587]: Reaping unused destination files; template='/var/log/archive/messages/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY'
2006-07-28T15:37:10+05:00 <syslog.notice> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[17587]: Reaping unused destination files; template='/var/log/archive/messages/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY'


Is there a way to get rid of these entries? Thanks.

it looks like a periodic check that sends verbose messages even if the files don't exist. i guess the only thing you need is to turn verbose messaging off. i have no idea how though.

refernece: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/s...ne/007639.html