[syslog-ng] Setting permissions on log files

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 01:45 +0000, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> With the 'file' destination, Syslog-ng modifies the ownership and
> permissions of the file when it opens it.  There are configuration
> file options to choose what it sets them to, but AFAICT, no way to 
> have Syslog-ng just leave the files as it finds them.
> 
> I prefer to maintain permissions and ownership separately; I set them
> when I create the file and expect them to stick.  Could there be a
> configuration file option for that?
> 

IIRC, you can use -1 for various options, which means "do not touch".
But I would need to test it. The code in the C part is there, the only
question that remains whether the parser accepts "-1" in the place of
owner/group/permissions.

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Bazsi