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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?

Maybe you're missing a semicolon on the line before?

Nope, but if I replace that line with this one: destination d_gb { file("/log/gb/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY"); }; It works just fine, although the file is root:root... And yes, the log user and log group exist. :) Sorry, should have mentioned those things in the first place. -- Alex Howansky Wankwood Associates http://www.wankwood.com/

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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:

- - - destination d_gb { file("/log/gb/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY" owner("log") group("log") ); }; - - -

Hope This Helps!

Woohoo it works! I can finally take that chown out of my crontab now...

(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/