[systemd-devel] Syslog-ng Failed

[Reindl Harald]

Am 07.06.19 um 16:14 schrieb Blaise T:
> I'm having an issue with my syslog-ng service. I already checked to see
> if syslog-ng. service was enabled, which it was. & I ran the syntax
> command on syslog-ng & there was no errors. When I try to start the
> service, I'm getting an error saying:
> 
> etc/syslog-ng$ systemctl start syslog-ng
> Job for syslog-ng.service failed because the control process exited with
> error code. See "systemctl status syslog-ng.service" and "journalctl
> -xe" for details.
> 
> When I run the systemctl message, I get this:
> 
>  systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service failed.
>  systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
> systemd[1]: Stopped System Logger Daemon.
>  systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for syslog-ng.service
>  systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logger Daemon.
>  systemd[1]: Unit syslog-ng.service entered failed state.
>  systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service failed.
>  systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for syslog-ng.service
> systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logger Daemon.
>  systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service failed.
this is not a systemd problem beause the service exits and systemd is
the messenger telling you - cause and effect

either "systemctl status syslog-ng.service" has something useful or you
need to report that to syslog-ng or your distribution