[syslog-ng]permissions

[Nate Campi]

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 05:36:33AM +0100, mark wrote:
> But the debugging output is giving "permission denied" errors. The
> permissions on the directories are setup like this:
> 
> # ls /var
> drwxr-x---    9 root     root         4096 May  8 05:11 log/
> 
> # ls /var/log
> drwx------    3 log      log          4096 May  8 05:13 syslog-ng/
> 
> # ls /var/log/syslog-ng
> drwx------    2 log      log          4096 May  8 05:13 local/
> 
> So surely the user "log" and therefore syslog-ng has permission to
> read and write in this directory? It doesn't appear to be the case as
> I can

No, the user log isn't allowed to cd through /var/log. 

# chmod o+x /var/log

...and you'll be fine. 

No offense, but I recommend a book like "Essential System
Administration" to get a good understanding of UNIX file permissions.
-- 
Nate

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