Hi it is me again no one had answered my previous questions until now but i 'll never loose hope so here is another one I am killing my self to add a file as a source driver in syslog-ng repeat i installed 1.6.12-76.2 in open suse 11.0 i used
source my_src {
#internal();
#file("/var/log/apache2/error_log"); #perm(0666);
#unix-dgram("/dev/log"); *see i tried alot of thing before i asked you* file("/var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log");
};
and here is the error Shutting down syslog services done Re-Starting syslog servicesError opening file /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log for r*eading (Permission denied)* Error initializing configuration, exiting. I also tried to change the file's permission by the way is this the best way to log mysql arror log to a syslog client thks