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Subject: Re: syslog-ng on Win7
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On Oct 22 18:04, Ken Brown wrote:
> I have syslog-ng running on two 64-bit Win7 systems, and the service
> stops periodically and can't be restarted.  The file
> /var/log/syslog.ng log contains many lines saying
> 
>   Persistent configuration file is in invalid format, ignoring;
> 
> But apparently it doesn't ignore the error, and I have to delete
> /var/lib/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.persist before I can restart the
> service.
> 
> I also have an XPSP3 system, on which this problem doesn't occur.

Looking into the ChangeLogs, this looks like a bug in syslog-ng which
might be fixed in git.  Upstream is planning a 3.2.5 maintainance
release.  I see to it that I update the Cygwin version as well.


Corinna

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