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  1. Bug #407862
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 407862

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Rainer Gerhards (rgerhards) wrote : Re: [karmic] Messages not being sent to system logs

I have integrated the patch (actually the idea as the code has evolved in the mean time). Thanks for the suggestions. Please note that I think this patch tries to fix something outside of the scope of rsyslogd. I have posted full details in the rsyslog's bug tracker [1] as well as in the doc for the new directive [2]. Consequently, this has been changed to a "feature request" from rsyslog's POV. As such, the "patch" goes into the recent devel (4.7.0). It is rsyslog policy never to add new features to stable or beta versions.

I would appreciate discussion on my view that the root cause is outside of rsyslog. Discussion is especially important as I expect that the work-around we now created will no longer work once rsyslog has new, better privilege drop code (probably in the v5 or v6 timeframe).

Thanks,
Rainer

[1] http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=150
[2] http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsconf1_omfileforcechown.html