Re: [syslog-ng] [Bug 99] New: syslog-ng unable to write to files owned by another user and not world writable

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:58:41AM -0700, Patrick H. wrote:

What user is syslog-ng running as? I'm guessing that whatever init script your distro uses is performing a setuid when launching syslog-ng "Permission denied (13)" is a error code given by the OS, not syslog-ng. Meaning that there is nothing in the syslog-ng code that is able to fix this.

-Patrick

Watch out for capabilities, apparmor, selinux as well. They are famous for breaking things when you use a daemon in a non default configuration that wasn't anticipated by the distro maintainers. Matthew.