Hi, On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 09:05:01PM +0000, Faine, Mark R. (MSFC-IS40)[NICS] wrote:

I'm monitoring the ACL on log files with monit and comparing them to a known good ACL to make sure everything is correct and running a correction script in response to a failure, my problem is that my compare keeps failing because syslog-ng is changing the effective permissions. Is there a way I can disable this?

The documentation states that you can achieve this by changing the options of your file() destination: owner() Type: string Default: Use the global settings Description: Set the owner of the created file to the one specified. To preserve the original properties of an existing file, use the option without specifying an attribute: owner(). group() Type: string Default: Use the global settings Description: Set the group of the created file to the one specified. To preserve the original properties of an existing file, use the option without specifying an attribute: group(). Source: https://www.syslog-ng.com/technical-documents/doc/syslog-ng-open-source-edit...