Is use UDP sources on my syslog-ng loghost. The init script has the following code that attempts to identify if these types of network sources are present in the syslog-ng.conf file: depend() { # Make networking dependency conditional on configuration case $(sed 's/#.*//' /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf) in source*tcp|source*udp|destination*tcp|destination*udp) need net ;; esac need clock hostname provide logger } This does not seem to work. Syslog-ng always fails during startup, and I have to start it manually. However, the following changes seems to work: depend() { # Make networking dependency conditional on configuration case $(sed 's/#.*//' /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf) in *source*tcp*|*source*udp*|*destination*tcp*|*destination*udp*) need net ;; esac need clock hostname provide logger } Apparrently, "source*tcp" translates to "anything with "source" beginning the line, followed by anything, followed by "tcp". And, since "$(sed 's/#.*//' /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf)" simply removes any commented lines and the truncates the result into on big string, there is only one line in the result, and it does not start with "source" or "desintation". Adding the *'s seems to get around this issue. There may be more elegant ways of doing this, but for my purposes I'm just poinging out the issue and have applied the fix on my machine until the init script is fixed. hope this helps. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.reboot machine 2.on reboot, see errors saying that it couldn't listen on the IP on the interface that wasn't brought up yet 3.
Fixed in -r2. Thanks for taking the time to figure out the problem and provide a fix.
