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

[pothier, brian]

You could also create another /dev/null for syslog to use..

> ls -lL /dev/null
crw-------    1 root     root       1,   3 Apr 11  2002 /dev/null
                               major^    ^minor
> mknod
usage: mknod name [ b/c major minor ] [ p ]
> mknod /dev/null.syslog-ng c 1 3

The major/minor numbers will vary from Unix to Unix. (i.e. Solaris is 13 and
2)
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian E. Seppanen [mailto:seppy@chartermi.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:32 PM
To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]Changing Permissions on /dev/null


On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Nate Campi wrote:

> 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.

Is there some way to have it leave the permissions of /dev/null as it 
previously was?   I toss messages for a page queue run that is done every 
10 seconds.   I don't want to drown in those messages, and I don't want to 
waste the disk space.  I also want the queue processed as fast and as 
often possible.

Thanks,


Brian Seppanen
seppy@chartermi.net
906-228-4226 ext 23


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