[syslog-ng] Starting syslog-ng as root

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Fri May 26 21:35:10 CEST 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 16:58 +0300, Muath Al Khalaf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I am trying to start syslog-ng as root but failed. The startup script
> is using daemon. I have tried also by issuing /sbin/syslog-ng but got
> nothing. I know it is better to run it with user privileges but this
> is to be able to log kernel messages file("proc/kmsg");

hmm.. I don't see why it failed, but I would certainly need some more
information to be able to help you. The return code of the executable,
an strace dump or something.

-- 
Bazsi



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