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

[Carlos Carvalho]

Hari Sekhon (hpsekhon at googlemail.com) wrote on 29 January 2007 12:13:
 >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.

That shouldn't be necessary because it opens /dev/log before dropping
root privileges. Also, messages to auth log are recorded, even though
to kernel log are not.