Syslog-ng installation problem
 

I recently installed centOS on an old box and used yum to install syslog-ng.

Install goes fine however when I try to run it I get this msg:

[root@linux proc]# service syslog-ng start
Starting syslog-ng: Error opening file /proc/kmsg for reading (Permission denied)
Error initializing configuration, exiting.
[FAILED]

I have been searching for a couple hours and can not figure it out. Anyone also experience this problem?

Hope this helps;
http://www.syslog.org/index.php?name...de=quote&p=758

...and it that doesn't help try this: having problems with syslog-ng on an SeLinux aware machine. The kernel will not allow me to open up /proc/kmsg for kernel messages..

Thanks! it worked!
 

Thanks unspawn, that worked perfectly... Ive been racking my brain!

anyone have a howto on setting syslog-ng to receive logs from firewalls to their own file?