[syslog-ng] syslog-ng refuses to open/write destination file

[Peck, Jonathan]

Thanks for the quick response....

 

Syslog-ng is running as root. It does have permission to hit the share,
as I can create, modify etc data on that share as root on the local
client. 

 

I've put syslog-ng into debug mode (syslog-ng -d -v) and it really
doesn't yield too much information.  I thought perhaps it was the
reporting element from the application, so changed it in its .xml config
to pipe as the user that runs the application. Still no joy. 

 

From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu
[mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Fegan, Joe
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 10:02 AM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng refuses to open/write destination
file

 

What user is the syslog-ng daemon running as, and does that user have
permission to write to the NFS directory?

 

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From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu
[mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Peck, Jonathan
Sent: 10 November 2008 15:57
To: syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu
Subject: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng refuses to open/write destination file

Hello...

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have configured syslog-ng to
add a custom application filter and log destination. Let me preface all
works when I configure the destination to be in /var/log. However, due
to operational needs the file needs to be written off to a directory in
/usr/local/ssl/<application location>. 

 

Here's the tricky part. The /usr/local/ssl/<application> is actually
being exported by a NFS server as a share. I thought perhaps that was
the issue as I do see a "cannot open file for writing, permission
denied" vomited by syslog-ng  and stamped when I kick start the
application. I checked the permissions on directory and the log file.
They are all good. I am able to touch, create, destroy, move, copy etc
data on that directory. It only appears syslog-ng is having the trouble.
What makes it more goofy is when I manipulate how I kick start the app
(via shell or daemon) sometimes I see the permission error sometimes I
do not. Ultimately syslog-ng still just stamps everything to 'messages'.


 

Question, does syslog-ng have a configuration for writing off your
destination file to an NFS share? I've never had this problem appear
before. Perhaps someone has some experience to lend a hand? Appreciate
it in advance!

 

Cheers - Jonathan

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