[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng" daemon killing the "setroubleshoot" daemonon RHEL5_X86_64

[Geller, Sandor (IT)]

Hello,

> Hi ,
>  
> When there was no daemon of "syslog-ng" was running
> ********************************************************************
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]# ps -eaf |grep -i syslog-ng
> root      2631  2597  0 10:58 pts/0    00:00:00 grep -i syslog-ng
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]#
> *********************************************************************
> in the absence of "syslog-ng" daemon  I was easily able to 
> restart the "setroubleshootd" daemon
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]# /etc/init.d/setroubleshoot restart
> Stopping setroubleshootd:                                  [  OK  ]
> Starting setroubleshootd:                                  [  OK  ]
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]#
> **************************************************************
> *****************************
> Now I started the "syslog-ng" daemon
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]# ps -eaf |grep -i syslog-ng
> root      2718     1  0 10:59 ?        00:00:00 syslog-ng
> root      2746  2597  0 11:00 pts/0    00:00:00 grep -i syslog-ng
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]#
> **************************************************************
> ***************************
> And I tried to start the "setroubleshoot", now it gives error.
> 
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]# /etc/init.d/setroubleshoot restart
> Stopping setroubleshootd:                                  [  OK  ]
> Starting setroubleshootd:                                  [  OK  ]
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]# Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/setroubleshootd", line 59, in ?
>     from setroubleshoot.config import cfg
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__init__.py",
>  line 24, in ?
>     log_init(sys.argv[0])
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setroubleshoot/log.py", 
> line 127, in log_init
>     syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log')
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 602, 
> in __init__
>     self._connect_unixsocket(address)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 617, 
> in _connect_unixsocket
>     self.socket.connect(address)
>   File "<string>", line 1, in connect
> socket.error: (13, 'Permission denied')
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]#
> 
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]# /etc/init.d/setroubleshoot restart
> Stopping setroubleshootd:                                  [FAILED]
> Starting setroubleshootd:                                  [  OK  ]
> [root at svllgg181 tmp]# Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/setroubleshootd", line 59, in ?
>     from setroubleshoot.config import cfg
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__init__.py",
>  line 24, in ?
>     log_init(sys.argv[0])
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setroubleshoot/log.py", 
> line 127, in log_init
>     syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log')
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 602, 
> in __init__
>     self._connect_unixsocket(address)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 617, 
> in _connect_unixsocket
>     self.socket.connect(address)
>   File "<string>", line 1, in connect
> socket.error: (13, 'Permission denied')

Please show how is /dev/log configured in your syslog-ng.conf

I suppose you're using unix-dgram not unix-stream, and the program
you're trying to use doesn't handle this case.

Regards,

Sandor
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