I am running Ubuntu 18.04
My config files and other info are below
log /dev/log local0
log /dev/log local1 notice
chroot /var/lib/haproxy
stats timeout 30s
user haproxy
group haproxy
daemon
defaults
log global
mode http
option httplog
option dontlognull
timeout connect 5000
timeout client 50000
timeout server 50000
frontend http_front
bind *:80
stats uri /haproxy?stats
default_backend http_back
backend http_back
balance roundrobin
server proxy1 myproxy:port check
server proxy2 myproxy:port check```
I typed in haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -db and i got this output
```[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:1]: unknown keyword ‘log’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:2]: unknown keyword ‘log’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:3]: unknown keyword ‘chroot’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:4]: unknown keyword ‘stats’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:5]: unknown keyword ‘user’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:6]: unknown keyword ‘group’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:7]: unknown keyword ‘daemon’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:20] : unknown keyword ‘jstats’ in ‘frontend’ section
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : Error(s) found in configuration file : /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : Fatal errors found in configuration.```
Haproxys status
```Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: Stopped HAProxy Load Balancer.
Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: Failed to start HAProxy Load Balancer.```
haproxy -vv
```HA-Proxy version 1.8.8-1ubuntu0.11 2020/06/22
Copyright 2000-2018 Willy Tarreau [willy@haproxy.org](mailto:willy@haproxy.org)
Build options :
TARGET = linux2628
CPU = generic
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/haproxy-_OgGP2/haproxy-1.8.8=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
OPTIONS = USE_GETADDRINFO=1 USE_ZLIB=1 USE_REGPARM=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_LUA=1 USE_SYSTEMD=1 USE_PCRE=1 USE_PCRE_JIT=1 USE_NS=1
Default settings :
maxconn = 2000, bufsize = 16384, maxrewrite = 1024, maxpollevents = 200
Built with OpenSSL version : OpenSSL 1.1.1 11 Sep 2018
Running on OpenSSL version : OpenSSL 1.1.1 11 Sep 2018
OpenSSL library supports TLS extensions : yes
OpenSSL library supports SNI : yes
OpenSSL library supports : TLSv1.0 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3
Built with Lua version : Lua 5.3.3
Built with transparent proxy support using: IP_TRANSPARENT IPV6_TRANSPARENT IP_FREEBIND
Encrypted password support via crypt(3): yes
Built with multi-threading support.
Built with PCRE version : 8.39 2016-06-14
Running on PCRE version : 8.39 2016-06-14
PCRE library supports JIT : yes
Built with zlib version : 1.2.11
Running on zlib version : 1.2.11
Compression algorithms supported : identity(“identity”), deflate(“deflate”), raw-deflate(“deflate”), gzip(“gzip”)
Built with network namespace support.
Available polling systems :
epoll : pref=300, test result OK
poll : pref=200, test result OK
select : pref=150, test result OK
Total: 3 (3 usable), will use epoll.
Available filters :
[SPOE] spoe
[COMP] compression
[TRACE] ```