Hi, Creating the socket under /dev requires root privileges, if you run it as "nxlog" it can only create the socket where it can write, e.g. Uds /var/run/nxlog/devlog It is possible that the symlink under /dev gets wiped out during a reboot. In that case you can add 'ln -s ...' to the nxlog init script or something similar (rc.local ?) that gets called during boot.
Regards, Botond On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 18:12:31 +0200 Christophe L <lec.christo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use nxlog to replace rsyslog on a CentOS 6.5. > Rsyslog used to create the socket /dev/log. Now that it is gone, NxLog is > in charge of the creation of the socket, and does so if it is root. > However, if I specify that I want Nxlog to run under the user "nxlog", > Nxlog can not create the socket /dev/log : > ERROR couldn't bind socket /dev/log;Permission denied > > I tried to create a symlink as specified here : > https://www.mail-archive.com/nxlog-ce-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00103.html > > But if I reboot, no one creates /dev/log, and the symlink points to nothing. > > So my question is : How can I do to make nxlog drop its privilege while > also creating /dev/log? > > Here is my nxlog.conf file if it can be useful : > > Moduledir /usr/local/libexec/nxlog/modules > Pidfile /tmp/nxlog.pid > LogFile /var/log/nxlog.log > Cachedir /tmp > #User nxlog > #Group nxlog > LogLevel info > # define CERTDIR ../../../test/cert > define CONFDIR /tmp > > <Extension syslog> > Module xm_syslog > </Extension> > > <Input uds> > Module im_uds > # Uds /var/run/nxlog/devlog > Uds /dev/log > Exec parse_syslog_bsd(); > FlowControl false > </Input> > > <Input kern> > Module im_kernel > Exec parse_syslog_bsd(); > </Input> > > <Output fileout> > Module om_file > File "/var/log/logmsg.txt" > </Output> > > <Output fileout2> > Module om_file > File "/var/log/logkern.txt" > </Output> > > <Route 1> > Path uds => fileout > </Route> > > <Route 3> > Path kern => fileout2 > </Route> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ nxlog-ce-users mailing list nxlog-ce-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nxlog-ce-users
