If you log in as the syslog-ng user and echo "hello" >> /var/log/netlog/sec-pipe does that work? -----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Mike Rykowski Sent: 12 January 2009 16:26 To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Subject: [syslog-ng] Getting named pipes to work Hello, I'm new to syslog-ng and trying to get named pipes to work. I'm running version 2.0.2. I get the following messages in the log on start up: Jan 12 10:09:02 netlog-e0 netlog syslog-ng[11791]: syslog-ng starting up; version='2.0.2' Jan 12 10:09:02 netlog-e0 netlog syslog-ng[11791]: Error opening file for writing; filename='/var/log/netlog/sec-pipe', error='No such file or directory (2)' In my conf file I have: destination dst_sec { pipe("/var/log/netlog/sec-pipe")}; On the host I have the pipe setup as: prw-r--r-- 1 syslog-ng syslog-ng 0 Jan 12 10:05 sec-pipe The syslog-ng process is run with user 'syslog-ng'. So I added the owner and group options for the pipe command and set them to syslog-ng and that resulted in the same message. Any ideas? -- Mike Rykowski NU-IT Telecommunications and Network Services ______________________________________________________________________________ Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng FAQ: http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html