Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Miika Linnapuomi <mki@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng logging problem
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:41:08
Message-Id: 20080614004058.7fff1061@pli
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng logging problem by Erik Danielsson
1 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:24:41 +0200
2 Erik Danielsson <danielss@××××××××××××××××.se> wrote:
3
4 > Hello!
5 >
6 > I'm unable to get the logging up and running as it should.
7 > I've tried syslog-ng, which seems to be pretty much what I need, but
8 > it keeps spamming my logs with a weird error message I can't seem to
9 > figure out.
10 >
11 > It fills the logs with
12 >
13 > "syslog-ng[9533]: Error opening file for writing;
14 > filename='/dev/tty12', error='Permission denied (13)'"
15 >
16 > and never stops. It pushes the CPU usage up to almost 100% as well.
17 >
18 > What's going on?
19 >
20 > Best wishes
21 > Erik
22
23 Unsure why it would use 100% cpu, but check that /dev/tty12 exists and
24 is writable by root. Or you could just remove references to /dev/tty12
25 in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
26
27 Thanks
28
29 Miika

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