[syslog-ng] Syslogd and syslog-ng

[jrhendri at maine.rr.com]

The syslog-ng.conf specifies the user:group used for each destination (as well as permissions)
Here is a quick example, but the manual is pretty comprehensive:
#!# the main destination directory tree
destination d_separatedbyhosts {
  file("/logs/syslog-ng/$HOST_FROM/$YEAR/$MONTH/$FACILITY.$PRIORITY.$YEAR.$MONT
H.$DAY" owner("root") group("syslogng") perm(0640) dir_perm(0750) dir_group("sy
slogng") create_dirs(yes));
};

The user and group used is entirely up to you based on how you want to grant access to these logs.

My NFS comment is simply that if this is a central log server, I question why you would be using NFS mounted storage as opposed to local (direct attach or SAN) storage - but that is entirely up to you.

Jim

---- Rocco Scappatura <Rocco.Scappatura at infracom.it> wrote: 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > Unix/linux by default does not allow root write permissions to NFS
> mounted
> > shares.
> > 
> > I suspect this may be the problem.
> > 
> > I would change the user:group that syslog-ng uses to write the data
> (if you
> > *really* need to write to an NFS mount in the first place)
> 
> Thanks for your answer. I sincerely hope that just is as you have
> stated.
> 
> How I can change user:group as you mentioned above? Why you say
> '*really*'?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> rocsca
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