[syslog-ng] syslog-ng doesn't log anything with local configuration

[Uwe Galle]

Geller, Sandor (IT) wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using openSUSE 10.3 with syslog-ng 1.6.12-33 with the following
>> configuration file:
>>
>> #
>> source s_file { internal(); };
>> destination d_file { file("/home/uga/Daten/system/system.msg"); };
>> log { source(s_file); destination(d_file); };
>>
>> You see, it's really simple. ls -l displays for the file:
>>
>> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root     0 2008-02-07 22:03 system.msg
>>
>> So system.msg is writable for all. But nothing is logged to the file,
>> even after restart. The FAQ mentions a similar case
>> (http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html#dupe_sources) but 
>> the problem
>> here are clearly duplicate  sources in the directives. This is not the
>> case here. Any ideas are very welcome.
>>     
>
> Seeing your mails about problems on openSuse rings a bell: AppArmor. Are
> you sure it doesn't block syslog-ng on your system?
>
> regards,
>
> Sandor
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>   
Your bell is pretty good. AppAmour was in fact the problem. I dind't
expect that Novell would block a component of its own OS. Thank you very
much.

Best regards,
Uwe
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