Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I'm trying to create a named pipe for syslog-ng to feed. No matter what I do, it seems, syslog-ng says: syslog-ng356508: Error opening file for writing;
filename='/data/pipes/net_pipe', error='No such device or address (6)'
I created it with mkfifo -m 640 /data/pipes/net_pipe
I then chown syslog:syslog /data/pipes/net_pipe

This is the same as when you let syslog-ng create the files on its own (but as a file).
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Originally posted by: MarkTaylor

how are you specifying /data/pipes/net_pipe in your syslog-ng.conf ?

can you cat n paste it pls ..

Just off the top of my head if you using a pipe and not a file, then it should be specified something like this ..

destination my_pipe pipe("/data/pipes/net_pipe");

rather than

destination my_file file("/data/pipes/net_pipe");

Rgds
MarkT
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I figured that out - not sure how I missed it (it was defining the file as a pipe in syslog-ng.conf).

If you're familiar with AIX though, I could certainly use some help in getting syslog-ng to startup as a subsystem, via rc.tcpip or whatever!
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