<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi, <br><br></div> I have added that and restarted syslog-ng, however still no difference. <br><br></div> Still creates the directories and files with root as owner and group. <br><br>drwxrwx--- 3 root root 4.0K Feb 27 13:07 <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Dwijadas Dey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwijad@gmail.com" target="_blank">dwijad@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Add create_dirs (yes) in the options section.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 27-Feb-2018 2:24 PM, "Machiel Richards" <<a href="mailto:machiel.richards@gmail.com" target="_blank">machiel.richards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="m_7359281839012073215quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Good day guys<br><br></div> I am having an issue that I seem not be able to resolve thus far. <br><br></div> I am fairly new to syslog-ng and have setup a new syslog server. <br><br><br></div> We have managed to get most of our servers sending logs to the server without issues, however I am having trouble to get syslog-ng to create the directories and files with the correct ownership. <br><br></div> We have a seperate user and group which it needs to create directories with, however it keeps on creating directories and files as root user. <br><br><br></div>below is my current config : <br><br># First, set some global options.<br>options { chain_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); use_dns(yes); use_fqdn(yes); owner("syslog"); group("syslog"); perm(0640); stats_freq(0); bad_hostname("^gconfd$"); log_fifo_size(10000); };<br><br>source inputs {<br> system();<br> internal();<br> unix-stream("/dev/log");<br> tcp(max_connections(50));<br> udp();<br>};<br><br><br>destination logpile {<br> file("/var/log/HOSTS/$HOST/$YE<wbr>AR/$MONTH/$FACILITY.$YEAR$MONT<wbr>H$DAY"<br> owner("syslog") group("syslog") perm(0660)<br> create_dirs(yes) dir_perm(0770)); };<br><br> log { source(inputs); destination(logpile); };<br><br><br><br><br><br></div>Can someone please assist me as any help would be appreciated. <br><br></div>Regard<font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="m_7359281839012073215m_-4386275838521428404gmail_signature">I am a bomb technician...If you see me running, TRY TO KEEP UP!</div>
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