[syslog-ng] More on syslog-ng changing ownership and perms of source file

[Scheidler, Balázs]

hi,

I've just posted a pull request that I didn't have time to test: can you
pls test if this fixes the issue for you?

https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/pull/1782

-- 
Bazsi

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:51 AM, <alain.villefranque at orange.com> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks a lot for your quick answer,
> It works fine in my situation,
>
> Regards
>
> Alain
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : syslog-ng [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] De la part de
> Jim Segrave
> Envoyé : mercredi 29 novembre 2017 15:01
> À : syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu
> Objet : [syslog-ng] More on syslog-ng changing ownership and perms of
> source file
>
> I added the line:
>
>          | file_dir_perm_option
>
> to the source_affile_option in ./modules/affile/affile-grammar.y:419
> would allow setting ownership and permissions on source files (or opting
> for no-change)
>
> This would gave:
>
> source_affile_option
>          : KW_FOLLOW_FREQ '(' LL_FLOAT ')'               {
> affile_sd_set_follow_freq(last_driver, (long) ($3 * 1000)); }
>          | KW_FOLLOW_FREQ '(' LL_NUMBER ')'              {
> affile_sd_set_follow_freq(last_driver, ($3 * 1000)); }
>          | KW_PAD_SIZE '(' LL_NUMBER ')'                 {
> ((AFFileSourceDriver *) last_driver)->pad_size = $3; }
>          | file_dir_perm_option
>          | multi_line_option
>          | source_reader_option
>          ;
>
> I did this with the syslog-ng.3.6.4 source and it now does the following:
>
> The owner group and permissions are changed only if the file source line
> specifies a value (not -1) for one of these items. In other words, it does
> not use any default value from the configuration, it simply leaves things
> as it found them.
>
> --
> Jim Segrave
> jes at j-e-s.net
>
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