Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:40:49 +0100 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: User questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: syslog-ng not logging Message-ID: <20071227174049.ku0vp66isksgkk0c@www.boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <98D543FB-8060-4F8F-B4FD-4E5B8ABE876F@goldmark.org> References: <1FF40B1F-D183-421A-A7A6-1BFD8E5EBE15@utdallas.edu> <20071227044016.bqrtqsjpwogkgc8k@www.boosten.org> <98D543FB-8060-4F8F-B4FD-4E5B8ABE876F@goldmark.org>
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Quoting Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@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 -- http://www.boosten.org
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