[syslog-ng]Running Syslog-ng chrooted

[Jon Marks]

Can you move the device file over to /usr/jail/syslog/dev/log and symlink
it from /dev/log? That way, programs can still find it (if they don't
care about a symlink), but it's living beneath the syslog-ng root. 

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:52:00PM +0200, Kaladis wrote:
> Dear Mailinglistpeoples,
> 
> First of all I'd appreciate it if you could cc all replies to kaladis@gmx.de
> since I'm not a member of this mailing list.
> 
> I am trying to run syslog-ng chrooted - to be accurate, from
> /usr/jail/syslog. I created /usr/sbin/syslog-ng, created all directories and
> so on, copied the needed libraries etc. Syslog-ng is starting quite fine
> within that chrooted environment as user syslog group syslog. However it is
> not logging anything. I guess that it must have to do with /dev/log since
> that isn't accesiable out of that environment anymore. Now I'm asking myself
> how I could have /dev/log under /usr/jail/syslog/dev/log or what else the
> problem could be.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> - Kaladis
> 
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Jonathan Marks

Systems Administrator, Production Systems Group
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign