On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 05:36:33AM +0100, mark wrote:
But the debugging output is giving "permission denied" errors. The permissions on the directories are setup like this:
# ls /var drwxr-x--- 9 root root 4096 May 8 05:11 log/
# ls /var/log drwx------ 3 log log 4096 May 8 05:13 syslog-ng/
# ls /var/log/syslog-ng drwx------ 2 log log 4096 May 8 05:13 local/
So surely the user "log" and therefore syslog-ng has permission to read and write in this directory? It doesn't appear to be the case as I can
No, the user log isn't allowed to cd through /var/log. # chmod o+x /var/log ...and you'll be fine. No offense, but I recommend a book like "Essential System Administration" to get a good understanding of UNIX file permissions. -- Nate "If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about...five minutes." - Anonymous