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Title
The System Logger Daemon failed to start after an upgrade to syslog-ng PE 7.0.33 -
Description
The System Logger Daemon failed to start after an upgrade to syslog-ng PE 7.0.33.
After upgrading the syslog-ng PE to 7.0.33, the System Logger Daemon failed to start and had the following errors:
systemd[1]: Starting System Logger Daemon...
-- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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-- Unit syslog-ng.service has begun starting up.
syslog-ng[4330]: [2023-09-08T12:12:07.074453] systemd-journal: Current position does not match the previously restored cursor position, seeking to head; cursor='s=96564f7d2e0a4291af8c9e3a844e9b90;i=a54;b=99b77b9a5f0348ffa829d90dbb4b6ffa;m
syslog-ng[4330]: [2023-09-08T12:12:07.076265] Error setting up TLS session context; tls_error='error:0200100D:system library:fopen:Permission denied', location='/opt/syslog-ng/share/syslog-ng/include/scl/custom-network-drivers/plugin.conf
syslog-ng[4330]: [2023-09-08T12:12:07.076323] Error initializing message pipeline; plugin_name='syslog', location='/opt/syslog-ng/share/syslog-ng/include/scl/custom-network-drivers/plugin.conf:47:25'
systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logger Daemon.
-- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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-- Unit syslog-ng.service has failed.
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-- The result is failed.
systemd[1]: Unit syslog
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Resolution
The folder permissions of the certificate path was not set properly. The failed upgrade had the certificate folder permissions set to 644 (drw-r-r--). The successful upgrade had the certificate folder permissions of 755 (drwxr-xr-x).