On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 10:25 -0600, Mike Rykowski wrote:
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.
Hmm... do you happen to use chroot? Because that might influence the paths. Also, try running syslog-ng under strace and see how it tries to open the pipe. If you have chroot related problems, please try the new 3.0 version of syslog-ng, that works much better with chroots and non-root usage. -- Bazsi