[SOLVED] syslog-ng Error opening file for writing

Published July 20th, 2011

If your syslog-ng runs as root but still won't create the logfile for writing then you have probably missed the following options from your config.

Edit /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf

# First, set some global options.
options { long_hostnames(off); sync(0); keep_hostname(yes); owner("root"); group("adm"); perm(0640); create_dirs(yes); dir_perm(0750); };

The last 2 variables are missing from the standard options

create_dirs(yes); dir_perm(0750);

So add these and restart using

/etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart