Couple of days ago I updated my home Gentoo box and after that syslog-ng was too full of connections. As always the remedy was near.

If you have app-admin/syslog-ng-2.0.4 and get errors like

syslog-ng[8827]: Number of allowed concurrent connections exceeded; num=’10′, max=’10′

to the syslog then read this helpfull topic from Gentoo forums.… Continue reading →