FileOwner

Sets the owner of the Unix-domain socket by user name.

This parameter applies to imptcp: Plain TCP Syslog.

Name:

FileOwner

Scope:

input

Type:

UID

Default:

input=system default

Required?:

no

Introduced:

at least 5.x, possibly earlier

Description

Set the file owner for the domain socket. The parameter is a user name, for which the userid is obtained by rsyslogd during startup processing. Interim changes to the user mapping are not detected.

Input usage

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

See also

See also imptcp: Plain TCP Syslog.

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