On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 11:25 -0600, Chris Fabri wrote:

Greetings-

I believe I've discovered an issue in syslog-ng 3.0.4. I've compiled this version on RH 3 (which might be the problem), and when you try for example:

syslog-ng -C /var/log -u syslog-ng

you get:

Error opening configuration file; filename='/usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf', error='No such file or directory (2)'

even specifying "-f /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf" causes the same problem.

Placing syslog-ng.conf in the directory specified by -C works, so perhaps the -C option has some issue with using the actual path instead of the chroot'ed path. I didn't see anything in the last several months of emails from the list, and I'm surprised this wouldn't have bitten more people, so it could be an RH3-ism, but wanted to make sure I reported it, in case it was more of a problem.

can you check with strace how syslog-ng tries to open your configuration file? it should open the file _after_ chrooting, thus the config file name is interpreted _inside_ the chroot. Or you are bitten by the fact that older syslog-ng's used to load the configuration file from outside the chroot? In 3.0, this behaviour was changed because you couldn't reload syslog-ng then. (it couldn't reopen its config file from outside the chroot). You can work around this behaviour if you copy/bind mount the config file into the chroot. -- Bazsi