[syslog-ng] Directory/file create ownership

[Machiel Richards]

Hi,

   I have added that and restarted syslog-ng, however still no difference.

   Still creates the directories and files with root as owner and group.

drwxrwx--- 3 root root 4.0K Feb 27 13:07

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Dwijadas Dey <dwijad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Add create_dirs (yes) in the options section.
>
> On 27-Feb-2018 2:24 PM, "Machiel Richards" <machiel.richards at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Good day guys
>
>       I am having an issue that I seem not be able to resolve thus far.
>
>       I am fairly new to syslog-ng and have setup a new syslog server.
>
>
>       We have managed to get most of our servers sending logs to the
> server without issues, however I am having trouble to get syslog-ng to
> create the directories and files with the correct ownership.
>
>       We have a seperate user and group which it needs to create
> directories with, however it keeps on creating directories and files as
> root user.
>
>
> below is my current config :
>
> # First, set some global options.
> options { chain_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); use_dns(yes);
> use_fqdn(yes); owner("syslog"); group("syslog"); perm(0640); stats_freq(0);
> bad_hostname("^gconfd$"); log_fifo_size(10000); };
>
> source inputs {
>        system();
>        internal();
>        unix-stream("/dev/log");
>        tcp(max_connections(50));
>        udp();
> };
>
>
> destination logpile {
>            file("/var/log/HOSTS/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$FACILITY.$YEAR$MONT
> H$DAY"
>            owner("syslog") group("syslog") perm(0660)
>            create_dirs(yes) dir_perm(0770)); };
>
>         log { source(inputs); destination(logpile); };
>
>
>
>
>
> Can someone please assist me as any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regard
>
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