[arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

[waldek]

Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 09:50:47 Thomas Bächler napisał(a):
> Magnus Therning schrieb:
> > Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group
> > other than root:root?  I'd like to make it possible for some users to
> > read the logs in /var/log.
> >
> > Any good suggestion for an already existing group to use?  I was
> > thinking of either log or wheel, any thoughts?
>
> syslog-ng uses root:log in its default configuration. If it doesn't
> check /etc/syslog-ng.conf.pacnew and see if the log group exists for you.

interesting, it did not work for me. in the /etc/syslog-ng.conf there was:

group("log");

and syslog-ng ignored this setting, I changed it to:

group(19);

as specified in the man page and it works fine now.

regards

waldek