Hello,

On 03/03/2011 02:28 PM, Hidayath Basha wrote:

When I start the service at client, I'm getting the following error
Starting syslog servicesError opening file for reading; filename='/some/file.log', error='Permission denied (13)'
Error initializing source driver; source='s_mysrc'
startproc: exit status of parent of /sbin/syslog-ng: 2

The file /some/file.log has -rw-rw-rw- permissions

You should try to disable AppArmor (rcapparmor stop), and if it helps, then add the file to /etc/apparmor.d/sbin.syslog-ng
Bye,

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BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
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