[syslog-ng] v2.1.2 Open Source Version: Error resolving user; user

[Saunders, Shawn]

That worked perfectly.  You rock!

Thank you,

 

Shawn Saunders

UNIX Systems Administrator

818.953.2649

WMG, Digital Properties

"Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?"

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From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu
[mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Balazs
Scheidler
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] v2.1.2 Open Source Version: Error resolving
user;user

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 12:25 -0800, Saunders, Shawn wrote:
> When I start syslog-ng 2.1.2 (Opensource)  I receive the following
> error.
> 
> 
> It worked fine with the same syslog-ng.conf file under v2.0.9
> 
>  
> 
> Starting syslog-ng: Error resolving user; user='root'
> 
> Error resolving user; user='root'
> 
> Error resolving user; user='root'
> 
> Error resolving user; user='apache'
> 
> Error resolving user; user='apache'
> 
> Error resolving user; user='apache'
> 
>  
> 
> These users do exist.  I use them and their existence is
> self-explanatory.
> 
>  
> 
> I have tried using the UID #'s for them and get basically the same
> errors.  Any ideas?

You are right, there was a typo in one of the patches I applied
recently, effectively causing username resolution to never work.

I've just pushed a patch that fixes this to my git repository.


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