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

[Magnus Therning]

waldek wrote:
> 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.

Yes, same here.  There should be a bug raised I guess.  If no one beats me to 
it I'll raise on tonight.

/M

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