I have installed both, openrc and systemd, but I use openrc for initialization of my machine. If syslog-ng-3.6.1 is emerged with the systemd use-flag, it doesn't log anything on my machine. Re-emerging WITHOUT the systemd use flags cures this. emerge --info app-admin/syslog-ng Portage 2.2.14 (python 3.4.2-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.9.2, glibc-2.20, 3.17.4-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.17.4-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_940_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 7906584 total, 3883840 free KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 1975236 free Timestamp of tree: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 06:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 ccache version 3.2 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.3_p30-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/perl: 5.20.1-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.7.8, 3.4.2 dev-util/ccache: 3.2 dev-util/cmake: 3.0.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.6 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r4, 1.10.3-r1, 1.11.6-r1, 1.12.6, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.3, 4.9.2, 4.10.0_pre9999::local sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.3-r2 sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.17-r1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.20 Repositories: gentoo local sunrise ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb /var/lib/neatx/home" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo " LANG="en_US.iso88591" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise" SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.RWTH-Aachen.de/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gfortran gif gimp glamor gpm gtk gtk3 iconv ipv6 jpeg lapack lcms libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds python qt qt3support qt4 readline sdl session smp spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssl startup-notification svg systemd tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xml xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc multiboot" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en de" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon fglrx" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-admin/syslog-ng-3.6.1 was built with the following: USE="ipv6 json ssl tcpd -amqp -caps -dbi -geoip -mongodb -pacct -redis -smtp -spoof-source -systemd" ABI_X86="64"
You should add: app-admin/syslog-ng -systemd to your /etc/portage/package.use file if you don't want systemd to manage syslog-ng.
