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

[Carlos Carvalho]

SZALAY Attila (sasa at pheniscidae.tvnetwork.hu) wrote on 29 January 2007 15:37:
 >On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:37 -0200, 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
 >
 >The question is that syslog-ng try to open kernel _source_ file or not?
 >(The kernel source file is /proc/kmsg) If syslog-ng doesn't have the
 >right to open (or read when SELinux is installed) this socket than it
 >cannot read the log messages.

It does open /proc/kmsg:

open("/proc/kmsg", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5

It doesn't open /var/log/kernel/log (the file configured as destination).