LinuxQuestions.org - Why is syslog-ng not recording any log events in /var/log/syslog.log

I'm trying to get some logs out of AppArmor'd applications in complain mode. Using aa-logprof it can retrieve messages from /var/log/syslog.log and build new profiles to restrict applications.

The log file is just repeating "starting up" and "shutting down" events. No other log events appear.

Here's a snippet of my /var/log/syslog.log:

Code:

May 28 18:38:54 hostname syslog-ng[3008]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.14.1'

May 28 18:38:56 hostname syslog-ng[13672]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.14.1'

Here is my /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:

Code:

@version: 3.14

@include "scl.conf"

#

# /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf

#



options {

  stats_freq (0);

  flush_lines (0);

  time_reopen (10);

  log_fifo_size (10000);

  chain_hostnames (off);

  use_dns (no);

  use_fqdn (no);

  create_dirs (no);

  keep_hostname (yes);

  perm(0640);

  group("log");

};



source src {

  system();

  internal();

};



destination d_authlog { file("/var/log/auth.log"); };

destination d_syslog { file("/var/log/syslog.log"); };

destination d_cron { file("/var/log/crond.log"); };

destination d_daemon { file("/var/log/daemon.log"); };

destination d_kernel { file("/var/log/kernel.log"); };

destination d_lpr { file("/var/log/lpr.log"); };

destination d_user { file("/var/log/user.log"); };

destination d_uucp { file("/var/log/uucp.log"); };

destination d_mail { file("/var/log/mail.log"); };

destination d_news { file("/var/log/news.log"); };

destination d_ppp { file("/var/log/ppp.log"); };

destination d_debug { file("/var/log/debug.log"); };

destination d_messages { file("/var/log/messages.log"); };

destination d_errors { file("/var/log/errors.log"); };

destination d_everything { file("/var/log/everything.log"); };

destination d_iptables { file("/var/log/iptables.log"); };

destination d_acpid { file("/var/log/acpid.log"); };

destination d_console { usertty("root"); };



# Log everything to tty12

destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };



filter f_auth { facility(auth); };

filter f_authpriv { facility(auth, authpriv); };

filter f_syslog { program(syslog-ng); };

filter f_cron { facility(cron); };

filter f_daemon { facility(daemon); };

filter f_kernel { facility(kern) and not filter(f_iptables); };

filter f_lpr { facility(lpr); };

filter f_mail { facility(mail); };

filter f_news { facility(news); };

filter f_user { facility(user); };

filter f_uucp { facility(uucp); };

filter f_ppp { facility(local2); };

filter f_debug { not facility(auth, authpriv, news, mail); };

filter f_messages { level(info..warn) and not facility(auth, authpriv, mail, news, cron) and not program(syslog-ng) and not filter(f_iptables); };

filter f_everything { level(debug..emerg) and not facility(auth, authpriv); };

filter f_emergency { level(emerg); };

filter f_info { level(info); };

filter f_notice { level(notice); };

filter f_warn { level(warn); };

filter f_crit { level(crit); };

filter f_err { level(err); };

filter f_iptables { match("IN=" value("MESSAGE")) and match("OUT=" value("MESSAGE")); };

filter f_acpid { program("acpid"); };



log { source(src); filter(f_acpid); destination(d_acpid); };

log { source(src); filter(f_authpriv); destination(d_authlog); };

log { source(src); filter(f_syslog); destination(d_syslog); };

log { source(src); filter(f_cron); destination(d_cron); };

log { source(src); filter(f_daemon); destination(d_daemon); };

log { source(src); filter(f_kernel); destination(d_kernel); };

log { source(src); filter(f_lpr); destination(d_lpr); };

log { source(src); filter(f_mail); destination(d_mail); };

log { source(src); filter(f_news); destination(d_news); };

log { source(src); filter(f_ppp); destination(d_ppp); };

log { source(src); filter(f_user); destination(d_user); };

log { source(src); filter(f_uucp); destination(d_uucp); };

#log { source(src); filter(f_debug); destination(d_debug); };

log { source(src); filter(f_messages); destination(d_messages); };

log { source(src); filter(f_err); destination(d_errors); };

log { source(src); filter(f_emergency); destination(d_console); };

log { source(src); filter(f_everything); destination(d_everything); };

log { source(src); filter(f_iptables); destination(d_iptables); };



# Log everything to tty12

#log { source(src); destination(console_all); };

I'm aware that AppArmor can misbehave with syslog-ng. However, syslog-ng starts up without error. That said, I've disabled all AppArmor restrictions on syslog-ng.

Is there something I haven't configured with syslog-ng? I'm also using openrc if that could influence things.