Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:24:41 +0200
Erik Danielsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm unable to get the logging up and running as it should.
> I've tried syslog-ng, which seems to be pretty much what I need, but
> it keeps spamming my logs with a weird error message I can't seem to
> figure out.
> 
> It fills the logs with
> 
> "syslog-ng[9533]: Error opening file for writing;
> filename='/dev/tty12', error='Permission denied (13)'"
> 
> and never stops. It pushes the CPU usage up to almost 100% as well.
> 
> What's going on?
> 
> Best wishes
> Erik

Unsure why it would use 100% cpu, but check that /dev/tty12 exists and
is writable by root. Or you could just remove references to /dev/tty12
in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf

Thanks

Miika

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