[syslog-ng] Directory/file create ownership

[Machiel Richards]

ok, that did the trick, thank you very much.


On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Nagy, Gábor <gabor.nagy at balabit.com> wrote:

> 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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