[syslog-ng] messed up permissions on /dev/null destination on solaris

[Nate Campi]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:39:21AM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> When using /dev/null as a destination on Solaris 8 (sparc) with
> syslog-ng 1.6.7 the perms of /dev/null get messed up:
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/null
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         27 Apr 19  2003 /dev/null -> ../devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null
> $ ls -l /devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null
> crw-r--r--   1 root     root      13,  2 Oct 16 18:27 /devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null
> 
> 
> I thought this was addressed at some point, was that only on Linux
> perhaps?

Oh, of course I'm going to manually set the correct perms with perm() in
the file destination clause, but I thought we made this automatic is my
point.
-- 
Nate

"Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree."