[syslog-ng] file permissions

Nate Campi syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:02:21 -0800


You misspelled the FACILITY macro, so there's a null filename.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:52:52PM -0500, Andrews, Glenn J (Glenn) wrote:
> 	Now for some reason I am getting these messages in /var/log/syslog
> Jan 27 18:31:34 ma106068-nm01 syslog-ng[2603]: Cannot open file /var/log/HOSTS/10.140.20.12/20040127/ for writing (Is a directory)
> 
> I have deleted the entire tree from HOSTS on down and killed and
> restarted syslog-ng.   But I still get this error.
> 
> 
> This is my destination line in syslog-ng.conf
> destination hosts { file("/var/log/HOSTS/$HOST/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY/$FACILTY" owner(root) group(root) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700) create_dirs(yes)); }; 
> 
> and options...
> 
> options { sync (0);
>           perm (0644);
>           time_reopen (10);
>           log_fifo_size (1000);
>           long_hostnames (off);
>           use_dns (no);
>           use_fqdn (no);
>           create_dirs (no);
>           keep_hostname (no);
>         };
> 
> Glenn Andrews
> N.E. Premise Operations
> Data / Voice Networking Services
> gjandrews@lucent.com <<mailto:gjandrews@lucent.com>> 
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