Re: [syslog-ng]change user:group of destination file

23 Dec 2002

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According to the docs/faq, I should be able to do this:
destination d_gb { file("/log/gb/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY"
owner(log) group(log)); };
But when starting, I get:
Starting syslog-ng: parse error at 51
Parse error reading configuration file, exiting. (line 51)
What am I missing?
Hi,
Try putting the user and group in quotes, like this:
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destination d_gb {
    file("/log/gb/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY"
        owner("log")
        group("log")
        );
    };
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Hope This Helps!
Woohoo it works! I can finally take that chown out of my crontab now...
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(This should probably be documented somewhere... At least there shouldn't be
a non-working example of using group/owner-directives in the FAQ.)
I'll CC the FAQ maintainer.

Thanks for the help,

-- 
Alex Howansky
Wankwood Associates
http://www.wankwood.com/