[syslog-ng] Starting syslog-ng as root

[Jose Pedro Oliveira]

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Muath Al Khalaf wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using Redhat Enterprise 4. I am using the official rpm image built
> by Balabit for RHE 4 with their startup script. The executable did not
> return anything (at least in front of me inside console). For strace I
> do not know how to use it.

You may be having problems with SELinux.  In RHEL4, CentOS, and Fedora
Core 3 you need to enable the use_syslogng SELinux boolean before
starting the syslog-ng daemon [1].

To check the use_syslogng boolean status

  getsebool -a | grep syslogng

To enable it (and saving its value)

  setsebool -P use_syslogng 1


jpo

[1] - you need to have the a recent selinux-policy-targeted
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José Pedro Oliveira
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