Zabbix is not use syslog!

[elliryc]

Hello, i am a french user of zabbix,
I am using zabbix 1.0 release, because i am in a production envirronement
first : thanks for your jobs, zabbix is a great monitoring tool.

second :I have some problems :
although in the configuration files of zabbix_suckerd and zabbix_agentd, i'm not use the "LogFile" parameter, zabbix is not using syslog.
In syslog.conf i have write :
"*.* /var/log/allmessages"
and i create this files, and reload syslog
but there's no trace of zabbix in /var/log/allmessages
of course i can use the logfile but in this way, i can't export the log to another server.

until i resolv this problem i am using the logfile.
if anyone know how to resolve my probleme?
thank you in advance
:o

[morgolis]

i've never used the syslog daemon to log messages from Zabbix, i've always used the log files that Zabbix generates on it's own.
I'm not sure, but i think you can push messages to the syslog daemon, but unfortunately i don't know how exactly.

Perhaps someone else can throw some light on this.

[elliryc]

thank you for your answer

[elliryc]

Is anyone use syslogd instead of the log file?

[kevinschmidt]

I have exactly the same problem. Not setting LogFile or setting it to nothing ("LogFile=") deactivates logging, nothing ever reaches syslog. I'm using Zabbix 1.4 and syslog-ng 1.6.11 on Gentoo. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Bye,
Kevin

[alj]

I have exactly the same problem. Not setting LogFile or setting it to nothing ("LogFile=") deactivates logging, nothing ever reaches syslog. I'm using Zabbix 1.4 and syslog-ng 1.6.11 on Gentoo. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Bye,
Kevin

Try this:
/usr/bin/logger -p local0.err -t zabbix -u /var/log/zabbix-server/zabbix-server.log

See if zabbix can log into socket instead of log file (probably log rotation should be turned off & logfile deleted).

[Alexei]

Thanks for reporting this problem.

[gugusg]

also the same issue in 1.6. any news about that ? :(

[lonerr]

--- src/libs/zbxlog/log.c.orig 2010-01-29 15:49:19.000000000 +0300
+++ src/libs/zbxlog/log.c 2010-01-29 15:49:33.000000000 +0300
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@
#else /* not _WINDOWS */

openlog("zabbix_suckerd", LOG_PID, LOG_USER);
- setlogmask(LOG_UPTO(LOG_WARNING));

#endif /* _WINDOWS */
}