Hi Peter, Thanks, disabling apparmor really worked. Thank you very much Thanks and regards, Hidayath -----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu]On Behalf Of Peter Czanik Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:06 PM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Permission Denied (13) 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, -- Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/