[CentOS] rsyslog does not log on a separate partition/FS mounted on /var/log/

Wed Aug 6 16:58:53 UTC 2014
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>

----- Original Message -----
| On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 04:50:41PM +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:
| > 
| > Probably rsyslog is being started before /var/log is mounted, and
| > so it
| > is opening files within /var/log on the root device.
| 
| rsyslog should start after local mounts are finished.
| 
| I suspect it's selinux; /var/log should have a "var_log_t" context
| and I
| suspect it doesn't.

running a restorecon -vv on /var/log should correct that automatically I would think.

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