[syslog-ng] running as non-root doesn't get kernel log

[Hari Sekhon]

Have you tried adding the syslog-ng user to a group and granting 
permissions on /dev/log or whatever you have to that group such

chown root:logger /dev/log

ls -l /dev/log
srw-rw-rw- 1 root logger 0 Jan 27 03:10 /dev/log=


Then restart syslog-ng and it should be able to read from the socket.


-h

Hari Sekhon



Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> I'm trying to run syslog-ng 2.0.0 as a user that's not root via the -u
> option. The problem is that it doesn't get the kernel log. Tracking
> with strace shows that it doesn't open the kernel destination file. I
> made sure that events were being generated. Running as root strace
> shows the kernel destination being opened, and the events are recorded
> in the file.
>
> Any ideas? 
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