[syslog-ng] syslog-ng changing permission on /dev/klog

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:23 -0500, hammy wrote:
> I hope someone can help me out with this problem b.c. I'm butting my
> head against the wall...
> 
> I have installed and configured syslog-ng to my (preliminary)
> satisfaction and have been able to run it from a terminal without any
> problems.  Syslog-ng creates logs and is generally happy.  But when I
> run it, I get one line that says syslog-ng is changing the permissions
> on /dev/klog.
> 
> I am running syslog-ng on a Mac OS 10.3.9.
> 
> When I edit /etc/rc to remove the startup for syslog and enter the folowing:
> 
> /path/to/syslog-ng -f /path/to/syslog-ng.conf -p /path/to/syslog.pid
> 
> and reboot the machine spins and does not finish booting.
> 
> If I boot the machine verbosely I can see that it is hanging while
> trying to change the permissions for /dev/klog.
> 

something like this

source s_file { file("/dev/klog" perm(-1) owner(-1) group(-1)); };

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Bazsi