nexxes open source blog » drop target http://blog.nexxes.org Open information provided by nexxes Informationstechnik GmbH Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:58:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Syslog-ng and /dev/null http://blog.nexxes.org/2009/07/11/syslog-ng-and-devnull/ http://blog.nexxes.org/2009/07/11/syslog-ng-and-devnull/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:11:29 +0000 Dennis Birkholz http://blog.nexxes.org/?p=5 Beware to try to use /dev/null as a drop target for syslog-ng by using something like the following in your syslog-ng.conf:

destination d_drop { file("/dev/null"); };

This will chmod your /dev/null file to 0600 (also known as crw-------) at every startup and cause many failures on your system/server. Use an empty target to drop your log messages:

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