On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:14:30PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
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.
Heh, I own a few of them. My brain appears to be in some sort of grey area today, I don't know why it wasn't obvious straight away. :) My only excuse is that it's 6am and I haven't slept yet. Thanks, anyway. mark www.darklogik.org
-- Nate
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