Re: [gentoo-hardened] syslog-ng wants to read /proc/kmsg. why?

[Chris PeBenito]

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 09:40, nixnut wrote:
> For some reason syslog-ng finds it necessary to write to /proc/kmsg. The
> policy does not allow this, so syslog-ng fails to start. Syslog-ng
> complains that it can't open /proc/kmsg for reading, but according to
> the policy it does have the rights to do so.

This is a broken syslog-ng behavior.  I fixed the policy for this a
while ago, but it hasn't gone out yet because I've been away for the
last month+.

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