logging messages from my program doesn't reach /var/log/messages
 

Hi,

I have a syslog-ng running and kernel build of 2.6.34.8

I use a syslog API in my program with facility LOG_LOCAL5 and and levels debug err and crit and info.

when I ran on the older syslog facility I had everything logged fine as I intended. now I have written these rules into the syslog-ng.conf:

options {
flush_lines (0);
time_reopen (10);
log_fifo_size (1000);
long_hostnames (off);
use_dns (no);
use_fqdn (no);
create_dirs (no);
keep_hostname (yes);
};

source s_sys {
file ("/proc/kmsg" program_override("kernel: "));
unix-stream ("/dev/log");
internal();
# udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
};

destination d_cons { file("/dev/console"); };
destination d_mesg { file("/var/log/messages"); };
destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); };
destination d_mail { file("/var/log/maillog" flush_lines(10)); };
destination d_spol { file("/var/log/spooler"); };
destination d_boot { file("/var/log/boot.log"); };
destination d_cron { file("/var/log/cron"); };
destination d_mlal { usertty("*"); };

#filter f_filter1 { facility(kern); };
filter f_filter2 { level(info..emerg) and
not facility(mail,authpriv,cron); };
filter f_filter3 { facility(authpriv); };
filter f_filter4 { facility(mail); };
filter f_filter5 { level(emerg); };
filter f_filter6 { facility(uucp) or
(facility(news) and level(crit..emerg)); };
filter f_filter7 { facility(local7); };
filter f_filter8 { facility(cron); };
filter f_gnssapp { facility(local5) or level(info..emerg); };
filter f_gnssdbg { facility(local5) or level(debug); };
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter1); destination(d_cons); };
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter2); destination(d_mesg); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter3); destination(d_auth); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter4); destination(d_mail); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter5); destination(d_mlal); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter6); destination(d_spol); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter7); destination(d_boot); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter8); destination(d_cron); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_gnssapp) ; destination(d_mesg); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_gnssdbg) ; destination(d_mesg); };


the last two rules show my program gnssapp.

the result is all debug levels or crit or err levels I don't see any of them !

any help is much appreciated

Have you checked dmesg for the output?
Kevin Barry

Yes, I don't have anything of tons of log messages I should have written with debug level in neither the /var/log/messages or in dmesg

Can you reproduce the problem with a small program you can post here?
Kevin Barry

Sorry for the delayed answer.

I appreciate your help. but my mistake was that I had two syslog-ng.conf files in my system one of which that I updated was not in the right directory.

kind of an amateur's mistake...

Thanks again...