Haproxy, log to syslog does not work

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Hello,

just install haproxy on IPFire 2.29 (x86_64) - Core-Update 198. The standard configuration in /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg is:

global
    # to have these messages end up in /var/log/haproxy.log you will
    # need to:
    #
    # 1) configure syslog to accept network log events.  This is done
    #    by adding the '-r' option to the SYSLOGD_OPTIONS in
    #    /etc/sysconfig/syslog
    #
    # 2) configure local2 events to go to the /var/log/haproxy.log
    #   file. A line like the following can be added to
    #   /etc/sysconfig/syslog
    #
    #    local2.*                       /var/log/haproxy.log
    #
    log         127.0.0.1 local2

But I have only a /etc/syslog.conf, there is a line:

 # HAProxy
local1.*                                          -/var/log/haproxy

But the /var/log/haproxy.log file is empty.

The next strange thing is, there is no button in the webinterface from IPfire, but I read, there should be one?

Any ideas?

2

Hello Bernd,

the snippet in haproxy.conf to match the syslog configuration should be:

        # Logging
        log 127.0.0.1 local1

This works well for me.

A button for what?

3

Hi Michael,

In the haproxy.cfg that is provided with haproxy in IPFire has local2 in place of local1

Should that be changed in the default config file that is provided?

4

The example configuration is probably not the best as it is coming from upstream, but I think it would be helpful to run a little sed command over it and replace the log facility. I agree.

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5

Don’t need to use sed as the file is in our build config directory.

I will submit a patch to change that log facility.

6

Oh, sorry, a button / Webinterface for haproxy. But I search google and found, there is no webinterface for haproxy in IPFire.