CentOS

The systemctl service file for syslog-ng seems half-baked in Centos 7.2. There is no way to stop syslog-ng via systemctl because there is no entry for ExecStop there, and the restart setting is "on-failure". I get that ordinarily you don't ever want syslog-ng down, but sometimes you need to shut it ...

I ran into the same issue with syslog-ng 3.5.6 on Centos 7.2. My problem was a customized syslog-ng.conf that had errors. When I ran syslog-ng in the foreground by hand, it smoked out my typos, eg: # /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F -p /var/run/syslogd.pid Error parsing config, syntax error, unexpected '{', e...