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First off, thanks for spending the time to have a look at this issue, its much appreciated.

I've had the attached rsyslog.conf configuration running for sometime now until today when I had to restart rsyslog as a disk was getting full. The result is that rsyslog is now logging to a new location (upated in .conf file) with all the previous permissions (currently root|root rw to be testing safe).

The issue I'm facing is that no matter what I try, rsyslog does not output a file. I've run a tcpdump and I'm still receiving data. The matching criteria (host IP address) shouldn't have changes and the config hasn't changed either.

Any help, particularly debug commands I can run would be greatly appreciated. I would rather learn something new (like rsyslog) than uninstall it and just use syslog-ng instead... Here is the config:

    ### Modules
$ModLoad imtcp
$ModLoad imudp
$ModLoad imuxsock       # provides support for local system logging (e.g. via logger command)
$ModLoad imklog         # provides kernel logging support (previously done by rklogd)

### Set log file permissions
$FileOwner root
$FileGroup root
$FileCreateMode 0777
$DirCreateMode 0777
$Umask 0022
$PrivDropToUser root
$PrivDropToGroup root

### Listeners
# bind ruleset to tcp listener
$InputTCPServerBindRuleset remote
# and activate it:
$InputTCPServerRun 514

$InputUDPServerBindRuleset remote
$UDPServerRun 514

### Templates
#Format the message correctly
$template MsgFormat,"%msg%\n"

# log every host in its own directory

##$template TESTLOG,"/opt/rsyslog/var/log/test.log"

### Rulesets
# Local Logging
# N/A None required at this point in time
#
# Remote Logging
$RuleSet remote

#---MY MATCHING RULE---#

if ($fromhost-ip == "192.168.1.1") then ?TESTLOG

Thanks in advanced :)

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You are using a customized path for your log file, so selinux is blocking you. Try to issue setenforce 0 and to restart rsyslog. If it now work, it is confirmed that your problem was selinux.

To permanently correct that while continue to use selinux, you need to issue

semanage fcontext -a -t var_log_t '/opt/rsyslog(/.*)?'; restorecon -RF /opt/rsyslog

After that, restart rsyslog.

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  • Thanks, that seems to have done the trick. Looks like its time to brush up on SELinux, any recommendations on reading material?
    – skittles
    May 5, 2015 at 1:12

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