[arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng-3.0.1-1

[Eric Bélanger]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Samstag 07 März 2009 schrieb Eric Bélanger:
>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > Hi guys
>> > while looking at those 2 bugs, i just bumped to new syslog-ng 3.x series.
>> > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6980
>> > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10776
>> >
>> > Changes:
>> > - adopted new syntax to config file
>> > - disable stats logging by default,
>> >  it just floods everything with useless stats.
>> > - added install message, which mentions syntax change
>> >
>> > signoff both arches
>> >
>> > greetings
>> > tpowa
>> > --
>> > Tobias Powalowski
>> > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
>> > http://www.archlinux.org
>> > tpowa at archlinux.org
>>
>> It can't create the pid file:
>>
>> $ sudo /etc/rc.d/syslog-ng start
>>
>> :: Starting Syslog-NG
>>
>> [BUSY] syslog-ng: Error creating pid file;
>> file='/usr/var/run/syslog-ng.pid', error='No such file or directory'
>>
>> There's probably an incorrect configure option
> hrm i don't use sudo, without sudo it works fine here.
>

I get same thing when running as root. Do you have a var symlink in
/usr? If so, that's why it works for you.
I don't know what could be the problem as we already use
--localstatedir=/var/lib/syslog-ng.  Maybe there's a configure  option
for the location of the pid file.