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

[Peter Czanik]

Hello,

On 08/17/2010 10:13 PM, Johnny Lapenna wrote:
> The log is written to /var/log/sol.log, is there a reason why the
> destination path could only be /var/log/?
>
>   
Most likely some kind of MAC is in effect, on RedHat & Co. it is
SELinux, on SuSE & Ubuntu it is Apparmor. Try to disable these, either
just for syslog-ng, or globally (which is usually easier), and see if it
helps. I can help you with Apparmor (or fetch info for SELinux).
Bye,

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Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik at balabit.hu>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/