[syslog-ng] [Bug 108] 2.6.38+ will require CAP_SYSLOG (CAP_SYS_ADMIN not enough)

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--- Comment #29 from Matthias Runge <mrunge at fedoraproject.org>  2011-07-15 11:17:39 ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> > 
> > syslog-ng without this patch starts fine...
> > 
> 
> That's expected. The patch assumes that libcap's version and <sys/capability.h> are in sync, which on Fedora, they're not. The workaround is to disable
> capabilities until libcap is upgraded to a newer version.

Ok, thanks for the clarification. I'll remove capabilities until libcap is upgraded.

> 
> Alternatively, I can prepare a patch that falls back to CAP_SYS_ADMIN in this case, but that'll result in a kernel warning, and we're back to square one.
> 
no, we should get this fixed in fedora. 

> There's already a bug filed at redhat's bugzilla to include a newer libcap: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689752
> 


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