Bug 294515 – app-admin/syslog-ng-3.0.3+ refuses to write to files not owned by root

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description ta2002 2009-11-25 04:31:34 UTC]

Daemon running as root, but my messages file is filled with:

Nov 25 04:00:01 system syslog-ng[3037]: Error opening file for writing; filename='/var/log/cron', error='Permission denied (13)'

This started after the recent upgrade to 3.0.4 (problem does not exist in older versions).

More information here:

https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42

It seems that a patch (workaround) for this does exist.

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-12-22 04:04:16 UTC]

Still a problem with 3.0.5?

[Comment 2 ta2002 2009-12-25 02:42:27 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Still a problem with 3.0.5?
> 

Yes.

Dec 25 02:33:31 system syslog-ng[2214]: Error opening file for writing; filename='/var/log/cron', error='Permission denied (13)'

$ ls -al /var/log/cron
-rw-r-----  1 cron    cron          0 2009-12-23 03:10:01 cron

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-01-19 17:39:20 UTC]

3.0.3 is not in the tree anymore.  If there's still some issue with 3.2.2 file a new bug please.

[Comment 4 ta2002 2011-01-21 03:33:10 UTC]

Problem still exists in current stable (app-admin/syslog-ng-3.1.3).

Jan 21 03:20:01 system syslog-ng[2107]: Error opening file for writing; filename='/var/log/cron', error='Permission denied (13)'
Jan 21 03:20:01 system syslog-ng[2107]: Error opening file for writing; filename='/var/log/cron', error='Permission denied (13)'
Jan 21 03:30:01 system syslog-ng[2107]: Error opening file for writing; filename='/var/log/cron', error='Permission denied (13)'
Jan 21 03:30:01 system syslog-ng[2107]: Error opening file for writing; filename='/var/log/cron', error='Permission denied (13)'

[Comment 5 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-01-21 06:12:19 UTC]

I said 3.2.2

[Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-05-07 23:48:31 UTC]

reference to obsolete version of syslog-ng.  closing.