[solved]syslog-ng issues

[rahulthewall]

I have some issues with my setup of syslog-ng. I got the configuration files from the gentoo documentation that was posted here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml?part=1&chap=3. Now the problem that I have is that all the log files under /var/log/ are owned by root. As a consequence of this if I run gnome-system-log to view the logs of my computer I can not view any of my system logs as they are owned by root. I do not want to run gnome-sytem-log as root and given the fact that syslog-ng does not have to run as root I can not understand what the problem here is.
If somebody would be able to help me, I would be really glad.

Thanks
Rahul
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[think4urs11]

see the official handbook about how to change access rights for the logs
http://www.balabit.com/dl/html/syslog-ng-admin-guide_en.html/ch08s02.html#reference_destination_file
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[rahulthewall]

Thanks, that was really fast!
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