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Problems starting syslog-ng

I've configured (i think) syslog-ng to listen on all interfaces, and I want to monitor all of our SonicWalls for every office. I'm going to point all of them at our syslog-ng server (Fedora Core 6 machine)

Problem is, when I try to start syslog-ng, I'm getting this error:

"[root@nagios log]# service syslog-ng start
Starting syslog-ng: syntax error at 49
Parse error reading configuration file, exiting. (line 49)
[FAILED]"

Line 49 signifies the start of the desination parameters. Can anyone help? I've attached my syslog-ng.conf file to this post. Hopefully I have it configured right. I've also included mysql support to inject data into our mysql database.

Thanks in advance.

# syslog-ng configuration file.
#
# This should behave pretty much like the original syslog on RedHat. But
# it could be configured a lot smarter.
#
# See syslog-ng(8) and syslog-ng.conf(5) for more information.
#
# 20000925 gb@sysfive.com
#
# Updated by Frank Crawford (<Frank.Crawford@ac3.com.au>) - 10 Aug 2002
#       - for Red Hat 7.3
#       - totally do away with klogd
#       - add message "kernel:" as is done with klogd.
#
# Updated by Frank Crawford (<Frank.Crawford@ac3.com.au>) - 22 Aug 2002
#       - use the log_prefix option as per Balazs Scheidler's email
#
# Updated by Jose Pedro Oliveira (<jpo at di.uminho.pt>) - 05 Apr 2003
#       - corrected filters 'f_filter2' and 'f_filter6'
#     these filters were only allowing messages of one specific
#     priority level; they should be allowing messages from that
#     priority and upper levels.
#
# Updated by Jose Pedro Oliveira (<jpo at di.uminho.pt>) - 25 Jan 2005
#   - Don't sync the d_mail destination
#
# Updated by Jose Pedro Oliveira (<jpo at di.uminho.pt>) - 01 Feb 2005
#   - /proc/kmsg is a file not a pipe.
#     (https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2005-February/006963.html)
#
 
options {
    sync (0);
    time_reopen (10);
    log_fifo_size (1000);
    long_hostnames (off);
    use_dns (no);
    use_fqdn (no);
    create_dirs (no);
    keep_hostname (yes);
};
 
# SonicWall syslog
source sonicwall {
    internal();
    udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
    tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
 
destination d_cons { file("/dev/console"); };
destination d_mesg { file("/var/log/messages"); };
destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); };
destination d_mail { file("/var/log/maillog" sync(10)); };
destination d_spol { file("/var/log/spooler"); };
destination d_boot { file("/var/log/boot.log"); };
destination d_cron { file("/var/log/cron"); };
destination d_mlal { usertty("*"); };
 
# MySQL added
destination d_mysql {
pipe("/tmp/mysql.pipe"
template("INSERT INTO logs (host, facility, priority, level, tag, date,
time, program, msg) VALUES ( '$HOST', '$FACILITY', '$PRIORITY', '$LEVEL','$TAG',
'$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY', '$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC', '$PROGRAM', '$MSG' );\n") template-escape(yes));
};
 
log {
    source(sonicwall); destination(d_mysql);
 };
 
# end of MySQL added
 
#filter f_filter1   { facility(kern); };
filter f_filter2   { level(info..emerg) and
                     not facility(mail,authpriv,cron); };
filter f_filter3   { facility(authpriv); };
filter f_filter4   { facility(mail); };
filter f_filter5   { level(emerg); };
filter f_filter6   { facility(uucp) or
                     (facility(news) and level(crit..emerg)); };
filter f_filter7   { facility(local7); };
filter f_filter8   { facility(cron); };
 
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter1); destination(d_cons); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter2); destination(d_mesg); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter3); destination(d_auth); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter4); destination(d_mail); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter5); destination(d_mlal); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter6); destination(d_spol); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter7); destination(d_boot); };
log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter8); destination(d_cron); };

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OK, update. Here is my new syslog-ng.conf file. It starts, but I don't see any data being injected into the SQL database "logs"

I have 1 Sonicwall pointing to our syslog-ng server, but no results yet?

Can anyone help?

# syslog-ng configuration file.
#
# This should behave pretty much like the original syslog on RedHat. But
# it could be configured a lot smarter.
#
# See syslog-ng(8) and syslog-ng.conf(5) for more information.
#
# 20000925 gb@sysfive.com
#
# Updated by Frank Crawford (<Frank.Crawford@ac3.com.au>) - 10 Aug 2002
#       - for Red Hat 7.3
#       - totally do away with klogd
#       - add message "kernel:" as is done with klogd.
#
# Updated by Frank Crawford (<Frank.Crawford@ac3.com.au>) - 22 Aug 2002
#       - use the log_prefix option as per Balazs Scheidler's email
#
# Updated by Jose Pedro Oliveira (<jpo at di.uminho.pt>) - 05 Apr 2003
#       - corrected filters 'f_filter2' and 'f_filter6'
#     these filters were only allowing messages of one specific
#     priority level; they should be allowing messages from that
#     priority and upper levels.
#
# Updated by Jose Pedro Oliveira (<jpo at di.uminho.pt>) - 25 Jan 2005
#   - Don't sync the d_mail destination
#
# Updated by Jose Pedro Oliveira (<jpo at di.uminho.pt>) - 01 Feb 2005
#   - /proc/kmsg is a file not a pipe.
#     (https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2005-February/006963.html)
#
 
options {
    sync (0);
    time_reopen (10);
    log_fifo_size (1000);
    long_hostnames (off);
    use_dns (no);
    use_fqdn (no);
    create_dirs (no);
    keep_hostname (yes);
};
 
# SonicWall syslog
source sonicwall {
    internal();
    udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
    tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
};
 
#destination d_cons { file("/dev/console"); };
#destination d_mesg { file("/var/log/messages"); };
#destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); };
#destination d_mail { file("/var/log/maillog" sync(10)); };
#destination d_spol { file("/var/log/spooler"); };
#destination d_boot { file("/var/log/boot.log"); };
#destination d_cron { file("/var/log/cron"); };
#destination d_mlal { usertty("*"); };
 
# MySQL added
destination d_mysql {
pipe("/tmp/mysql.pipe"
template("INSERT INTO logs (host, facility, priority, level, tag, date,
time, program, msg) VALUES ( '$HOST', '$FACILITY', '$PRIORITY', '$LEVEL','$TAG',
'$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY', '$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC', '$PROGRAM', '$MSG' );\n") template-escape(yes));
};
 
log {
    source(sonicwall); destination(d_mysql);
 };
 
# end of MySQL added
 
#filter f_filter1   { facility(kern); };
filter f_filter2   { level(info..emerg) and
                     not facility(mail,authpriv,cron); };
filter f_filter3   { facility(authpriv); };
filter f_filter4   { facility(mail); };
filter f_filter5   { level(emerg); };
filter f_filter6   { facility(uucp) or
                     (facility(news) and level(crit..emerg)); };
filter f_filter7   { facility(local7); };
filter f_filter8   { facility(cron); };
 
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter1); destination(d_cons); };
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter2); destination(d_mesg); };
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter3); destination(d_auth); };
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter4); destination(d_mail); };
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter5); destination(d_mlal); };
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter6); destination(d_spol); };
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter7); destination(d_boot); };
#log { source(s_sys); filter(f_filter8); destination(d_cron); };

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