The previous patch was buggy, here a corrected one. I couldn't come up
with a more elegant solution...
The variables SYSLOGNG_USER, SYSLOGNG_GROUP and SYSLOGNG_CHROOT may be
set in /etc/default/syslog-ng
--- syslog-ng-2.0.9/debian/syslog-ng.init
+++ syslog-ng-2.0.9/debian/syslog-ng.init
@@ -51,6 +51,18 @@
SYSLOGNG="/sbin/syslog-ng"
NAME="syslog-ng"
+SYSLOGNG_OPTIONS=""
+
+# Do we have a non-root user set?
+if [ -n "$SYSLOGNG_USER" ]; then
+ SYSLOGNG_OPTIONS="-u $SYSLOGNG_USER"
+fi
+
+# Do we have a non-root group set?
+if [ -n "$SYSLOGNG_GROUP" ]; then
+ SYSLOGNG_OPTIONS="$SYSLOGNG_OPTIONS -g $SYSLOGNG_GROUP"
+fi
+
create_xconsole() {
if [ ! -e /dev/xconsole ]
then
@@ -60,8 +72,15 @@
syslogng_start() {
log_daemon_msg "Starting system logging" "$NAME"
- start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec "$SYSLOGNG" \
- --pidfile "$PIDFILE" -- -p "$PIDFILE"
+
+ # Do we have a chroot jail set?
+ if [ -z "$SYSLOGNG_CHROOT" ]; then
+ start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec "$SYSLOGNG" \
+ --pidfile "$PIDFILE" -- $SYSLOGNG_OPTIONS -p
"$PIDFILE"
+ else
+ start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec "$SYSLOGNG" \
+ --pidfile "$PIDFILE" -- $SYSLOGNG_OPTIONS -p
"$PIDFILE" -C "$SYSLOGNG_CHROOT"
+ fi
RET="$?"
log_end_msg $RET
return $RET
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