FailOnChOwnFailure

Controls startup failure if changing socket owner, group, or mode fails.

This parameter applies to imptcp: Plain TCP Syslog.

Name:

FailOnChOwnFailure

Scope:

input

Type:

boolean

Default:

input=on

Required?:

no

Introduced:

at least 5.x, possibly earlier

Description

Rsyslog will not start if this is on and changing the file owner, group, or access permissions fails. Disable this to ignore these errors.

Input usage

input(type="imptcp" failOnChOwnFailure="...")

See also

See also imptcp: Plain TCP Syslog.

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