[syslog-ng] Trying to write syslog to /opt

[Johnny Lapenna]

Hi I'm trying to write the following log to /opt/ in which I am unable to:

in syslog-ng.conf I have the following:

#filter f_local      { facility(local0, local1, local2, local3,
#                              local4, local5, local6, local7); };
filter f_local      { facility( local1, local2, local3,
                               local4, local5,  local7); };

filter f_sol      { facility(local0); };

# Log SOL messages in a separate log

destination solmessages { file("/opt/solLOG/sol.log"); };
log { source(src); filter(f_sol); destination(solmessages); };
#destination solmessages { file("/var/log/sol.log"); };
#log { source(src); filter(f_sol); destination(solmessages); };

The above does not work but if I comment out:

#destination solmessages { file("/opt/solLOG/sol.log"); };
#log { source(src); filter(f_sol); destination(solmessages); };
destination solmessages { file("/var/log/sol.log"); };
log { source(src); filter(f_sol); destination(solmessages); };

The log is written to /var/log/sol.log, is there a reason why the
destination path could only be /var/log/?

Thank you in advance.
Johnny