[arch-dev-public] FYI: systemd 198

[Evangelos Foutras]

On 8 March 2013 02:35, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>         * The journal files are now owned by a new group
>           "systemd-journal", which exists specifically to allow access
>           to the journal, and nothing else. Previously, we used the
>           "adm" group for that, which however possibly covers more
>           than just journal/log file access. This new group is now
>           already used by systemd-journal-gatewayd to ensure this
>           daemon gets access to the journal files and as little else
>           as possible. Note that "make install" will also set FS ACLs
>           up for /var/log/journal to give "adm" and "wheel" read
>           access to it, in addition to "systemd-journal" which owns
>           the journal files. We recommend that packaging scripts also
>           add read access to "adm" + "wheel" to /var/log/journal, and
>           all existing/future journal files. To normal users and
>           administrators little changes, however packagers need to
>           ensure to create the "systemd-journal" system group at
>           package installation time.

I think the above was missed in the systemd 198-1 package.