then the question is does it fail to open the /var/log/kernel/log file before or after dropping root privs and can you solve this by granting the "logger" group the privs on the files? -h Hari Sekhon Carlos Carvalho wrote:
SZALAY Attila (sasa@pheniscidae.tvnetwork.hu) wrote on 29 January 2007 15:37:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:37 -0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
I'm trying to run syslog-ng 2.0.0 as a user that's not root via the -u option. The problem is that it doesn't get the kernel log. Tracking with strace shows that it doesn't open the kernel destination file. I
The question is that syslog-ng try to open kernel _source_ file or not? (The kernel source file is /proc/kmsg) If syslog-ng doesn't have the right to open (or read when SELinux is installed) this socket than it cannot read the log messages.
It does open /proc/kmsg:
open("/proc/kmsg", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
It doesn't open /var/log/kernel/log (the file configured as destination). _______________________________________________ syslog-ng maillist - syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Frequently asked questions at http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html