[syslog-ng] [Bug 99] New: syslog-ng unable to write to files owned by another user and not world writable

[Matthew Hall]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:58:41AM -0700, Patrick H. wrote:
> What user is syslog-ng running as? I'm guessing that whatever init
> script your distro uses is performing a setuid when launching
> syslog-ng
> "Permission denied (13)" is a error code given by the OS, not
> syslog-ng. Meaning that there is nothing in the syslog-ng code that
> is able to fix this.
> 
> -Patrick

Watch out for capabilities, apparmor, selinux as well.

They are famous for breaking things when you use a daemon in a non 
default configuration that wasn't anticipated by the distro maintainers.

Matthew.