[syslog-ng] Cannot start syslog-ng on Debian

Gergely Nagy algernon at balabit.hu
Wed Oct 26 07:23:33 CEST 2011


Hery Fanomezantsoa <rhfano at gmail.com> writes:

> I installed syslog-ng-3.2.4 from source on Debian Lenny and when I start
> syslog-ng with /usr/local/syslog-ng/sbin/
> syslog-ng it shows me this error:
> Error creating persistent state file;
> filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng/var/syslog-ng.persist-', error='No such file
> or directory (2)'

Create the /usr/local/syslog-ng/var directory, and this error should go
away.

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