2009/6/13 Thomas Bächler <tho...@archlinux.org>: > syslog-ng uses root:log in its default configuration. If it doesn't check > /etc/syslog-ng.conf.pacnew and see if the log group exists for you.
I'll almost hijack the thread because I have an issue open with log files in a [community] package, mldonkey. This package has a daemon that drops privileges to a local user, usually a physical one, so it has troubles logging. At the moment it logs in /tmp/, and logs get deleted at reboot. An alternative, maybe more appropriate, would be /var/run/mldonkey/, but it has the same issue, and log files should be persistent. I was requested by a user to create a /var/log/mldonkey/ directory and put log files there, owned by the daemon-configured user, however I'm not too fond of the idea of having user-owned files in a system directory like /var/log/, even though in an isolated part of it. Can I have an opinion from developers about this matter? Thanks, Corrado
