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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>We had this problem aswell at our site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>What seems to be happening is logrotate makes a new
/var/log/messages file and changes the permissions on the file. What we did to
fix this was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Make a new goup and add the hobbit/bb user to the grp.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Edit /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and add/edit the following line<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>create 640 root „name of group“<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Then hobbit/bb should be able to read the file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 16. maí 2008 06:56<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [hobbit] /var/log/messages permission denied<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>chgrp HOBBITUSER
/var/log/messages<br>
chmod g+r /var/log/messages<br>
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Taken from: <a
href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Gavin Leonard <<a
href="mailto:gleonard@progrexion.com">gleonard@progrexion.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span lang=EN-US>When I look at my messages status on the Main BB page I
only see this? Do I need to change the perms on the /var/log/messages
folder?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre><span lang=EN-US>No entries in <a
href="http://misery.pgx.local/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=pbx-01&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages"
target="_blank">/var/log/messages</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
lang=EN-US>Full log <a
href="http://misery.pgx.local/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=pbx-01&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages"
target="_blank">/var/log/messages</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
lang=EN-US>Cannot open logfile /var/log/messages : Permission denied<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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