syslogd: Logging subprocess ... exited with status 126

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Sun Jun 26 08:20:56 GMT 2005


On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 11:05:17AM +0300, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:
> local3.info           | /var/run/nmd.log

> syslogd: Logging subprocess s 1358 ( /var/run/nmd.log) exited with status 126.

If you say "| /var/run/nmd.log" it means "run the program
/var/run/nmd.log and feed the log messages to stdin of that program".
I'm guessing that /var/run/nmd.log is a logfile and not a program,
thus you're getting an error because it is not executable.

	David.


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