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

[Magnus Therning]

waldek wrote:
> Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 11:05:13 Thomas Bächler napisał(a):
>> Magnus Therning schrieb:
>>>> 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.
>> It probably should. I'm confused though, it works for me with the group
>> name (as in the default config).
> 
> Speaking about confusion - seems to work now with both options:
> 
> group("log");
> 
> and
> 
> group(19);
> 
> funny thing is that the "group("log");" is in the default one .conf file, so 
> the logs should have belonged to the log group but they did not - belive me - 
> I am not mad ;-) the only proof I have is this:
> 
> [waldek at wolfblade log]$ ll syslog.log*
> -rw-r----- 1 root log   338 2009-06-13 11:56 syslog.log
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 5483 2009-06-10 22:02 syslog.log.1
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 1131 2009-05-30 09:44 syslog.log.2
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 2493 2009-05-27 06:48 syslog.log.3
> -rw-r----- 1 root root  875 2009-05-16 09:00 syslog.log.4

I have a newly installed system and I can confirm that all files in /var/log
are owned by root:root.  A little experiment:

  1. stop syslog-ng
  2. move aside /var/log/syslog.log (e.g. to /var/log/syslog.log.oldie
  3. start syslog-ng
  4. check the permissions on /var/log/syslog.log--on my system they were
     now root:log

So, it seems the problem is that the logs in /var/log are created either by an
instance of syslog-ng that doesn't have the correct configuration, or by
something completely different.  There seems to be no way to tickle syslog-ng
to modify the group of already existing files :-(

I raised bug 15095.

/M

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