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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">You can add the option<br>
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--control=/your/location/syslog-ng.ctl<br>
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to the syslog-ng instance, and add the same option to the
syslog-ng-ctl program.<br>
<br>
Be sure that the user you run syslog-ng as has write permission in
the directory /usr/location<br>
<br>
Evan.<br>
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On 04/15/2015 08:54 AM, Andrew Bell wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wondering if someone can help me with an
issue that I am currently having. I am running syslog-ng as a
local non-root user (I have it installed to a local instance
under my home directory) and am trying to use the
syslog-ng-ctl program in order to diagnose why certain log
files are not passing through syslog-ng to their log
destination (trying to rule out if it is a problem with the
location where the logs originate OR if there is an issue with
the syslog-ng setup and it is dropping or otherwise failing to
forward those incoming logs). However, when I try to run
syslog-ng-ctl under my local account I get the following
error, where it appears to reference a control socket that is
located in a directory that is owned and operated by the root
account (I should note that I am unable to sudo as root with
my setup on the system). <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>/home/abell/syslog-ng-install/opt/syslog-ng/sbin$
./syslog-ng-ctl verbose<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Error connecting control socket,
socket='/opt/syslog-ng/var/run/syslog-ng.ctl', error='No
such file or directory'<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This type of error above is also appearing
when I run syslog-ng program itself with the debug (‘-d –v’)
options set<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Error opening control socket, bind()
failed; socket='/opt/syslog-ng/var/run/syslog-ng.ctl',
error='No such file or directory (2)'<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I did some searching online and did find
some manuals on syslog-ng-ctl that said I could specify a
different directory where the control socket resides to one
that isn’t in the root directory using the “-c” flag. This
mailing list post also mentioned that running a local instance
of syslog-ng-ctl should automatically create a local instance
of the control socket file located in the /var directory where
the local instance resides (so in my case, I imagine it would
be /home/abell/syslog-ng-install/var ???). Here’s the
reference link -> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2009-June/013027.html">https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2009-June/013027.html</a>
- there weren’t any next messages to this thread so it is
difficult to tell if this solution worked for the original
author here or not…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So I created that “/var” directory as he
suggested but I still don’t see the .ctl file created when I
go to stop and restart syslog-ng … and so I don’t really have
anything to specify for the “-c” option as an alternative. I
tried touching the control socket file in that directory as a
zero byte file, but still nothing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>/home/abell/syslog-ng-install/opt/syslog-ng/var$
touch syslog-ng.ctl<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>/home/abell/syslog-ng-install/opt/syslog-ng/var$
cd ..<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>/home/abell/syslog-ng-install/opt/syslog-ng$
cd sbin<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>/home/abell/syslog-ng-install/opt/syslog-ng/sbin$
./syslog-ng-ctl verbose --set=on -c
/home/abell/syslog-ng-install/opt/syslog-ng/var/syslog-ng.ctl<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Error connecting control socket,
socket='/home/abell/syslog-ng-install/opt/syslog-ng/var/syslog-ng.ctl',
error='Connection refused'<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any ideas as to how I can get this control
socket file created on my local syslog-ng – or if I can tell
syslog-ng itself to specify spinning up the control socket
file itself in a different location than the root one? I’d
really like to be able to use this tool to figure out what is
going on with my syslog-ng setup. Let me know if there’s any
other details or information that I can provide.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andrew<o:p></o:p></p>
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