[Bug 789174] Re: rsyslog fails to create tcp socket.

[Scott Moser]

Ryan, the pipermail link above is to upstream discussion about this.   Unless there is something upstream newer than that 2 year old information, your options are:
a.) run rsyslog as root by removing the $PrivDropToUser and  $PrivDropToGroup options, or possibly overriding them in /etc/resolv.conf.d/ files (i'm not sure if this is possible or not).
b.) use the 'Sleep' work around suggested on the thread (git commit [1]).
c.) listen on a port > 1024
d.) pay upstream for 2 weeks work to get the fix done correctly.

[1]
http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=commitdiff;h=d19806431653e6575a002ab4

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Title:
  rsyslog fails to create tcp socket.

Status in “rsyslog” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: rsyslog

  My package:
  ii  rsyslog                                               4.6.4-2ubuntu4

  The thing is that when starting rsyslog first drop privileges and then
  tries to create socket and more. This seems to be a bug, because the
  same configuration works fine on 10.04. Configuration is attached.

  rsyslog output:
  May 27 18:37:55 ubuntu01 kernel: imklog 4.6.4, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
  May 27 18:37:55 ubuntu01 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="5547" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
  May 27 18:37:55 ubuntu01 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103
  May 27 18:37:55 ubuntu01 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
  May 27 18:37:55 ubuntu01 rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
  May 27 18:37:55 ubuntu01 rsyslogd-2077: Could not create tcp listener, ignoring port 514. [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2077 ]

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