Syslog rotate problem

romko · 06-18-2010, 01:54 PM

Hello everyone!!!

I'm not very experienced with Linux and need help. I'm running SLES 9 where I set up syslog archiving. It collects logs fine but rotation is not working. Every time I try to restart script it gives me "Permissions denied" error.

this is how it looks:

Code:

#
# Please note, that changing of log file permissions in this
# file is not sufficient if syslog-ng is used as log daemon.
# It is required to specify the permissions in the syslog-ng
# configuration /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.in as well.
#

#
# The following files are used in syslog-ng config:
#
/var/log/acpid /var/log/messages {
    compress
    weekly
    missingok
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /etc/init.d/syslog reload
    endscript
}

These are permissions:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1764 Jun 2 2009 syslog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1014 Mar 10 11:46 syslog-ng

Any advise will be appreciated.

Didier Spaier · 06-18-2010, 02:02 PM

Welcome to LQ.

Your script does not look correct (or may be it is not complete ?).

First it should begin with a sha-bang like this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

Please send it again (copy/paste everything) surrounded by CODE markup (click the Go advanced button then highlight the code and press the # button to do that)

romko · 06-22-2010, 09:06 AM

Here it is

LouRobytes · 06-22-2010, 09:13 AM

Think you left something out of your last post.

Cheers, Lou

romko · 06-22-2010, 10:09 AM

Code:

#
# Please note, that changing of log file permissions in this
# file is not sufficient if syslog-ng is used as log daemon.
# It is required to specify the permissions in the syslog-ng
# configuration /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.in as well.
#

#
# The following files are used in syslog-ng config:
#
/var/log/acpid /var/log/messages {
    compress
    weekly
    missingok
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /etc/init.d/syslog reload
    endscript
}