rsyslog channels change ownership from root

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Published on 2011-02-02T16:42:09Z Indexed on 2011/02/02 23:33 UTC
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Hello all I am using rsyslog on ubuntu 10.4 64bit LTS.

the following is the relevant config in /etc/rsyslog.d/60-mylogger.conf

$template Paul,"%msg%\n"

$outchannel log_rotation_paul,/var/log/paul/events.log,2000,/opt/scripts/log_rotation_script.sh

local0.* $log_rotation_paul;Paul

This should rotate every 2000 bytes

My problem is the the channel directive here causes the ownership defined in /etc/rsyslog.conf to be completely ignored and when my log rotate script is called I don't have the root permissions required to move my log file as its the script runs as rsyslog and the file I am moving requires root permissions.

Any ideas I found this link but unfortunately it does not fix my issue.

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