syslog-ng not logging
Peter Boosten
peter at boosten.org
Thu Dec 27 08:40:54 PST 2007
Quoting Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey at goldmark.org>:
> Is there any reason not to simply do a
>
> cd /var/log
> chown -R daemon .
I think (but I'm not sure) that permissions will be reversed by mtree.
>
> also
>
> chown daemon /dev/console
Won't work either. *if* you're going to do that you should alter
/etc/devfs.conf
>
> for console logging.
>
> Will log rotation preserve daemon ownership?
Never used the *traditional* log style with syslog-ng, I stored
everything per day/month/year/server.
I ended up running syslog-ng as root, which is probably a bad idea as
well, so I cannot give you any advice on this one.
Peter
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