[syslog-ng] Info about owner() options

Cosmin Neagu cosmin.neagu at omnilogic.ro
Fri Apr 22 10:34:09 CEST 2011


Well, you can ignore this, i found it, i should have used dir_owner and 
dir_group...





  Cosmin Neagu
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On 04/22/2011 11:19 AM, Cosmin Neagu wrote:
> Hello,
> New around here, i'm trying to use the owner option when logging into file.
> My configs:
>
> source s_udp { udp();};
> destination df_hosts {
>
> file("/home/cosmin/SYSLOG/HOSTS/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$FACILITY$YEAR$MONTH$DAY"
> owner(cosmin) group(cosmin) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700) create_dirs(yes));
>     };
> log {
>           source(s_udp);
>           destination(df_hosts);
> };
>
>
> The only problem is that files, are owned by root, not by cosmin.
> cosmin at DellCosmin:~/SYSLOG$ sudo ls -l HOSTS/
> total 8
> drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2011-04-22 10:41 10.90.0.252
> drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2011-04-22 10:41 192.168.156.100
>
> So, can someone tell me if i'm doing something wrong? I would like the
> files to be created and owned by cosmin:cosmin not root:root
>
> The process is running as root:
> cosmin at DellCosmin:~/SYSLOG$ ps -ef | grep syslog-ng
> root      3448     1  0 10:41 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -p
> /var/run/syslog-ng.pid
>
>
>


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