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syslog-ng package

Error opening file for writing - news.notice

Bug #1999611 reported by Konrad Hofer
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This bug affects 2 people
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syslog-ng (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Hi,

in syslog I get see error message:

syslog-ng[2678]: Error opening file for writing; filename='/var/log/news/news.notice', error='No such file or directory (2)'

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04

apt-cache policy syslog-ng
syslog-ng:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.35.1-1
  Version table:
     3.35.1-1 500
        500 mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt jammy/universe amd64 Packages

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in syslog-ng (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Scott Moore (scottbomb) wrote :

Interesting.... I created the file to make syslog-ng happy and it's logging events like these (main is the hostname):

Apr 15 17:43:42 main thermald[37057]: Unsupported cpu model or platform
Apr 15 17:47:00 main thermald[1237]: Unsupported cpu model or platform
Apr 15 18:13:42 main thermald[69540]: Unsupported cpu model or platform
Apr 15 18:21:58 main thermald[1246]: Unsupported cpu model or platform
Apr 15 21:14:46 main thermald[1329]: Unsupported cpu model or platform
Apr 15 22:06:15 main thermald[1090]: Unsupported cpu model or platform
Apr 15 22:34:57 main thermald[764]: Unsupported cpu model or platform
Apr 15 22:58:33 main thermald[1296]: Unsupported cpu model or platform
Apr 15 23:07:24 main thermald[987]: Unsupported cpu model or platform
Apr 16 12:35:32 main thermald[758]: Unsupported cpu

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Lázár Imre (lazarimre) wrote :

I don't see any interesting here, in the scope of syslog-ng. These lines are generated by a process 'thermald'. Syslog-ng only writes it to a file, according with your config.

Back to your original question: from the documantation of file destination:

If the expanded filename refers to a directory which does not exist, it will be created depending on the create-dirs() setting (both global and a per destination option).
default is no for create-dirs()

I suggest to use: create_dirs(yes) perm(0644) dir-perm(0775)

please close this case, this platform is not for syslog-ng support.

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