Re: [rsyslog] Ubuntu 16 rsyslogd not creating log files

2017-11-10 Thread dchappelle via rsyslog
Thanks for all of the info deoren. I do have the file you speak of installed on my system: dchappelle@L164:~$ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/00rsyslog.conf # Override systemd's default tmpfiles.d/var.conf to make /var/log writable by # the syslog group, so that rsyslog can run as user. #

Re: [rsyslog] Ubuntu 16 rsyslogd not creating log files

2017-11-09 Thread dchappelle via rsyslog
Apologies for not including the config. Here is /etc/rsyslog.d/10-example.conf: dchappelle@L164:/etc/rsyslog.d$ cat 10-example.conf local0.*/var/log/test.log & stop The actual issue here looks to be a permissions issue. The syslog user does not have permis

[rsyslog] Ubuntu 16 rsyslogd not creating log files

2017-11-09 Thread dchappelle via rsyslog
I am running a vanilla install of Ubuntu 16 and my rsyslogd is not creating new log files for me. I added a new filter rule and restarted rsyslogd. After doing so and generating log messages for that rule, the target log file is not created. If I manually create the file my log messages are then lo