[santoshdhumal]

I have installed syslog-ng on RHEL 5 to forward the syslog messages to the centralized server. I have done required configuration on syslog-ng.conf file to point to the centralized server.

But when I am starting the syslog-ng service, it gives following error


[root@vd12sta sysconfig]# service syslog-ng start
Starting system logger: Error opening file for reading; filename='/proc/kmsg', e rror='Permission denied (13)'
Error initializing source driver; source='s_sys'
[FAILED]


I am trying to start this service by using root login
Permission for the /proc/kmsg are as following

-rwx------ 1 root root 0 Mar 13 01:30 kmsg

Please let me know the issue? Also please let me if any work around to start this service?

Thanks
Santosh

[pgothe]

Well Comment the file() funtion on the Source. It will solve the issue.

It will directly take the syslog messages from Syslog-ng and not from klogd

Thanks
Pavan Gothe
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