centos – rsyslogd: omfile: creating parent directories for file ‘Permission denied’ failed: /home//logs/docker/log

I’m getting the following error (note that rsyslogd is run as root)

rsyslogd: omfile: creating parent directories for file  'Permission denied' failed: /home//logs/docker/log

This directory has permissions:

drwxr-xr-x. 2        6 Sep 23 12:20 docker

Regardless of permissions, because rsyslogd is run as root, I think there should be no problem with this?

ps -eo user,group,pid,comm | grep rsyslogd
root     root     14910 rsyslogd

I don’t have root access, but just had the person with root access check and they can write to /home//logs/docker/log via vim, so this suggests it’s rsyslogd related.

rsyslogd 8.24.0-57.el7_9.3, compiled with:
        PLATFORM:                               x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
        PLATFORM (lsb_release -d):
        FEATURE_REGEXP:                         Yes
        GSSAPI Kerberos 5 support:              Yes
        FEATURE_DEBUG (debug build, slow code): No
        32bit Atomic operations supported:      Yes
        64bit Atomic operations supported:      Yes
        memory allocator:                       system default
        Runtime Instrumentation (slow code):    No
        uuid support:                           Yes
        Number of Bits in RainerScript integers: 64

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