Hi All The problem did seem to be that the service was not running as root as Adam suggested. I had this in rc.conf below. I'm assuming the second line runs the service as user daemon!? ....when I removed it, the service started.
Thanks for the help. syslog_ng_enable="YES" syslog_ng_config="-u daemon" syslog_ng_pid="/var/run/syslog-ng.pid" On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Peter > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Peter Fraser <petros.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi All >> I wonder if anyone could help me with this problem. I followed the >> instructions in the handbook to create some jails. It makes part of >> the filesystem readonly which is good. > > This sounds like you used the "service jail" approach [1]. Correct me > if I am wrong. > >> Problem is though that I tried >> installing syslog-ng in one of the jails and when I tried to start it, >> I got this error >> >>> Error binding socket; addr='AF_UNIX(/var/run/log)', error='Permission >>> denied (13)' >>> Error initializing source driver; source='src', id='src#0' >>> Error initializing message pipeline; >>> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/syslog-ng: WARNING: failed to start syslog_ng >> >> I think it's trying to create the socket files /var/run/log and >> /var/run/logpriv but can't. Is there anyway for me to create them >> manually? > > It has been some time since I used that method to create jails; the > areas that have burned me in particular were symlinking > /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl and similarly for the > security/ca_root_nss port. > > Re-reading the doc, /var should be made read/write as it is part of > the jail "skeleton" filesystem, from which you create the "moving > parts" of your jail, so to speak. Did you create /var read-only? > > Regards, > > > [1] - > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-application.html > > -- > Glen Barber > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
