[syslog-ng]Re: Having trouble with the options syntax for file permissions (fwd)

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 08:06:18PM +0000, Leonard Mills wrote:
> 
> laszlo.murvai-buzogany@gt-systems.hu wrote on Thu Feb 14 at 09:59:19 2002:
> 
> >I have had the same problem before, here is the thing you need:
> >destination trash { file("/dev/null" perm(0666) ); };
> 
> >That's how it works for me.
> 
> Thanks, but this won't  work for me.  It doesn't drop core, but the
> daemon dies without writing anything to the log file(s).

as it seems your OS doesn't allow setting /dev/null to nonblocking mode and it
is fatal as of now:

void io_set_nonblocking(int fd)
{
        if (fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, fcntl(fd, F_GETFL) | O_NONBLOCK) < 0)
                fatal("io_set_nonblocking: fcntl() failed, %z", strerror(errno));
}

what platform are you running syslog-ng?

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