Hi. I've picked this bug up for deian...@tokyo, and have several comments on how to fix.
So the requests are: 1. Allow syslog-ng to run on different user/group. 2. Allow syslog-ng to create log file/dir with different user/group, preferrably same as #1. 3. Change log file location so logrotate configuration would be simpler. For above requests, I propose following fix/nonfix-es: - For 1 and 2, introduce EXTRAOPT= parameter in /etc/defaults/syslog-ng and let /etc/init.d/syslog-ng pick it up. This will also allow other future tweaks as well. - But, since running syslog in non-root and/or chroot-ed mode is nonstandard, making it "possible" should be enough. Introducing too much auto-configuration and other complexity should be avoided. - I'm against moving log files to /var/log/syslog-ng/*.log. Making it specific to syslog-ng will break compatibility with other "syslog" implementations, and probably many user-scripts expecting "/var/log/syslog" to be exact that location. I'll be submitting patch, but I got a suggestion this bug isn't grave from the first. So 1. I'll first re-rate severity of this bug to "wishlist" (so this won't be a blocker RC-bug). 2. Then submit a patch. Best Regards,
