[syslog-ng] Wrong syslog-ng behaviour for PROGRAM macro and non-root file follow

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Fri May 16 12:54:33 CEST 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 12:04 +0000, Behal, Pavel wrote:
> Dear Bazsi,
> 
> 1) Regarding the "unsafe"  macro $PROGRAM, I would recommened addition of some option or flag , where you can turn on a replacement of unsafe characters in destination and also set the new target character as you like.

fair enough.

> 
> 2) Regarding the drop of root privileges - leave it as it is now, just remember to write it into the documentation. (Maybe future desing may change this.)

Cced the documentation team on this one.

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Bazsi



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