Error setting capabilities, capability management disabled;
root@monitor:/opt/observium# service syslog-ng restart
Stopping system logging: syslog-ng.
Starting system logging: syslog-ngsyslog-ng: Error setting capabilities, capability management disabled; error='Operation not permitted'
root@monitor:/opt/observium# uname -a
Linux monitor 2.6.32-042stab075.2 #1 SMP Tue Mar 5 15:21:53 MSK 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Is this an issue with the Kernel?
Solution 1:
Yes, this is a known issue with some combinations of syslog-ng
, glibc
and kernel versions.
It is not very well documented, but there are references in the balabit site. This is just one example.
In Debian, set SYSLOGNG_OPTS="--no-caps"
in /etc/default/syslog-ng
to workaround this issue.