[syslog-ng] Chroot Occuring Too Early

Larry Low llow at telesphere.com
Fri Dec 11 17:27:29 CET 2009


> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 14:16 -0800, Larry Low wrote:
> > Building out a new syslog-ng server and it seems that in syslog-ng
> 3.0.5 is chrooting before reading the config file and setting up
> /dev/log.  I ran the same configuration in syslog 2.0.7 without this
> problem.
> >
> > /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng --chroot /var/log
> > Error opening configuration file; filename='/opt/syslog-
> ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf', error='No such file or directory (2)'
> >
> 
> That's right, this was changed in 3.0 because with the earlier method,
> you couldn't reload syslog-ng, you always had to use restart.

Documentation should be updated to reflect this.  It reflects pre-3.0 as far as reloading is concerned.  I know personally I would rather have to restart syslog-ng during a change than having to restructure to have syslog-ng chrooted.

> 
> --
> Bazsi
> 


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