Restarting syslog-ng

 
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Old 03-18-2015
Restarting syslog-ng

Environment: SUSE 10.3

I made a configuration change in '/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf' file in a server.

An article found on web says "After the change '/etc/init.d/syslog-ng' should be restarted". But there is no 'syslog-ng' in /etc/init.d directory.

What is syslog-ng or a different I should restart to make this change effective?

Thanks
# 2  
Old 03-18-2015
/etc/init.d/syslog is common to syslog and its alternatives syslog-ng and rsyslog
# 3  
Old 03-18-2015
When I ran this restart command I got below messages. Is this normal or something wrong?
Thanks,

# /etc/init.d/syslog restart
Shutting down syslog services
Starting syslog servicesError resolving user; user=’news’
Error resolving user; user=’news’
Error resolving user; user=’news’
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Old 03-18-2015
If the syslog-ng process is running then it has worked, and you can ignore this message.

If you want to get rid of the message, add a user "news" as follows:
Code:
useradd -c "News system" -d /etc/news -g 13 -u 9 -s /bin/bash news

Alternatively you can comment the "news" lines in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.
This User Gave Thanks to MadeInGermany For This Post:
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Old 03-19-2015
useradd -c "News system" -d /etc/news -g 13 -u 9 -s /bin/bash news
I'd like to add a user 'news'. My question is what could be "News system"?
Is it a server name or ip address?

Could you explain more?

I appreciate your taking time to answer my questions.

---------- Post updated at 01:15 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:45 PM ----------

Never mind.
The command MadeInGermany worked.

Thank you
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