[syslog-ng] Directory/file create ownership

[Nagy, Gábor]

Hello!

Just a guess, but have you tried dir_group, etc. options as well?

Regards,
Gabor

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Machiel Richards
<machiel.richards at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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$MONTH$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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>>
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>
>
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