Oracle Linux: Rsyslogd Sevice Failed to Start When syslog-ng Service Enabled (Doc ID 2683027.1)

Last updated on JUNE 23, 2020

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Symptoms

After system booted the ryslogd service is failed to start

# systemctl status rsyslog.service

â rsyslog.service - System Logging Service

  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

  Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2020-06-12 09:45:37 EDT; 16min ago

  Docs: man:rsyslogd(8)

  http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/

  Process: 7879 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

 Main PID: 7879 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jun 12 09:45:36 <hostname> systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.

Jun 12 09:45:36 <hostname> systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.

Jun 12 09:45:36 <hostname> systemd[1]: rsyslog.service failed.

Jun 12 09:45:37 <hostname> systemd[1]: rsyslog.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.

Jun 12 09:45:37 <hostname> systemd[1]: Stopped System Logging Service.

Jun 12 09:45:37 <hostname> systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for rsyslog.service

Jun 12 09:45:37 <hostname> systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.

Jun 12 09:45:37 <hostname> systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.

Jun 12 09:45:37 <hostname> systemd[1]: rsyslog.service failed.

Changes

 syslog-ng configured

Cause

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