[syslog-ng] Problems configuring syslog-ng

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:24:07 +0100, Balazs Scheidler said:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:48 +0000, "Marcus Viní­cius S. Mendes" wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to configure syslog-ng to log messages from local0 into a 
> > directory under the /usr tree.
> > I'm sure that my configuration is correct, but the syslog-ng cannot 
> > write the file.
> > When I switch to logging in /var tree, it works.
> > My question is: Cannot I log into another directory?
> 
> are you sure it has the proper permissions?

Another possible gotcha is that the listed permissions are correct, but
the system has /usr/local (or /usr, if /usr/local isn't a separate filesystem)
is mounted R/O.
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