[syslog-ng]Changing Permissions on /dev/null

[Nate Campi]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 01:09:39PM -0500, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> I've just installed 1.5.26 and for some reason I get the following errors
> Feb  4 12:23:01 host syslog-ng[15522]: Changing permissions on special 
> file /dev/null
> 
> permissions are then listed as 
> crw-------    1 root     root       1,   3 Apr 11  2002 /dev/null
> 
> cronjobs that redirect output to dev null for ordinary admin accounts are 
> failing because they no longer have permissions to write to /dev/null
> 
> When did syslog-ng start changing the permissions on /dev/null, so what 
> release do I need to backpeddle to.

You need to modify your syslog-ng conf file to not use /dev/null as a
destination.
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