Solaris syslog-ng error

If you get an error like:

# svcs syslog-ng
STATE STIME FMRI
maintenance 8:50:44 svc:/system/syslog-ng:default

# svcs -xv syslog-ng
svc:/system/syslog-ng:default (syslog-ng)
State: maintenance since Mon Dec 14 08:50:44 2009
Reason: Start method failed repeatedly, last exited with status 1.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M syslog-ng
See: /var/svc/log/system-syslog-ng:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.

# cat /var/svc/log/system-syslog-ng:default.log
[ Dec 14 08:50:42 Disabled. ]
[ Dec 14 08:50:42 Rereading configuration. ]
[ Dec 14 08:50:43 Enabled. ]
[ Dec 14 08:50:43 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-syslog-ng") ]
Error parsing command line arguments: Conversion from character set '646' to 'UTF-8' is not supported[ Dec 14 08:50:44 Method "start" exited with status 1 ]
[ Dec 14 08:50:44 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-syslog-ng") ]
Error parsing command line arguments: Conversion from character set '646' to 'UTF-8' is not supported[ Dec 14 08:50:44 Method "start" exited with status 1 ]
[ Dec 14 08:50:44 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-syslog-ng") ]
Error parsing command line arguments: Conversion from character set '646' to 'UTF-8' is not supported[ Dec 14 08:50:44 Method "start" exited with status 1 ]
[ Dec 14 08:52:06 Rereading configuration. ]

This has nothing to do with the configuration, merely a missing charset.alias file.

To correct:

# ln -s /usr/lib/charset.alias /usr/local/lib/charset.alias

# svcadm clear syslog-ng

# svcs syslog-ng
STATE STIME FMRI
online 8:59:38 svc:/system/syslog-ng:default