syslog-ng

As of February, 2019, version of syslog-ng in OpenWrt master is 3.19.1

As of March, 2018, https://openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/syslog-ng is version 3.8.1

On master of April, 2018, the following steps will replace the default OpenWRT logging with syslog-ng

  • Install syslog-ng and its dependencies
  • Disable the default logging with /etc/init.d/log disable or by removing the symlink in /etc/rc.d
  • Confirm that syslog-ng is enabled; /etc/rc.d/S20syslog-ng → ../init.d/syslog-ng
  • reboot

FIXME Much of the following appears to be from Backfire, c. 2011

# opkg install syslog-ng

Configuration is controlled by /etc/syslog-ng.conf The default configuration logs to /var/log/messages.

Below is a sample configuration for logging to a remote server via TCP (extended from default config file):

#############################################################################
# OpenWrt syslog-ng.conf specific file
# which collects all local logs into a single file called /var/log/messages.
# More details about these settings can be found here:
# https://www.syslog-ng.com/technical-documents/doc/syslog-ng-open-source-edition/3.16/release-notes/global-options

@version: 3.19
@include "scl.conf"
@include "/etc/syslog-ng.d/" # Put any customization files in this directory

options {
	chain_hostnames(no); # Enable or disable the chained hostname format.
	create_dirs(yes);
	keep_hostname(yes); # Enable or disable hostname rewriting.
	log_fifo_size(256); # The number of messages that the output queue can store.
	log_msg_size(1024); # Maximum length of a message in bytes.
	stats_freq(0); # The period between two STATS messages (sent by syslog-ng, containing statistics about dropped logs) in seconds.
	flush_lines(0); # How many lines are flushed to a destination at a time.
	use_fqdn(no); # Add Fully Qualified Domain Name instead of short hostname.
};

filter notice_or_higher {
        level(notice..emerg)  # remove debug and info message
};

# syslog-ng gets messages from syslog-ng (internal) and from /dev/log
source src {
        internal();
        unix-dgram("/dev/log");
};
source kernel {
        file("/proc/kmsg" program_override("kernel"));
};
source net {
        tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
};
destination messages {
        file("/var/log/messages");
};
destination syslogd_tcp {
        tcp("syslog." port(514));    # hostname is syslog, replace with your own loghost name or IP
};
log {
        source(src);
        source(kernel);
        filter(notice_or_higher);
        destination(messages);
        destination(syslogd_tcp);
};

Reconfiguration

To apply changes, it is not sufficient to simply restart the syslog-ng daemon. Instead, stop and start the daemon as follows (taken from http://baheyeldin.com/technology/linux/logging-with-syslog-ng-on-openwrt.html):

# killall syslog-ng
# /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start

IPv6 Logserver

To log to a logserver listening on an IPv6 address, use a udp6() destination in the configuration file:

...
destination d_udp6 { udp6("1234:5678:1011:1314::01" port(514)); };
...
log {
    source(src);
    source(kernel);
    destination(d_udp6);
};
...
# /etc/init.d/syslog-ng enable
# /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start
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  • Last modified: 2019/02/18 21:14
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