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<p class="MsoPlainText">Not sure what Linux you are running, but have you looked SELinux This could be causing you your access issues.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Check this link out on ways to turn it off to see if it is the culprit.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.crypt.gen.nz/selinux/disable_selinux.html">http://www.crypt.gen.nz/selinux/disable_selinux.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Alan<o:p></o:p></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""> xymon-bounces@xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Josh Luthman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 29 March 2011 1:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Adam Goryachev<br>
<b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Hobbit Permission Problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Xymon probably isn't running as root and hence the user has no permission to read that file.<br>
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Use group permission for the file and add the Xymon user to that group.<br>
<br clear="all">
Josh Luthman<br>
Office: 937-552-2340<br>
Direct: 937-552-2343<br>
1100 Wayne St<br>
Suite 1337<br>
Troy, OH 45373<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Adam Goryachev <<a href="mailto:adam@websitemanagers.com.au">adam@websitemanagers.com.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I've got a bit of a problem across a number of machines which I'm having<br>
some trouble working out.<br>
<br>
Basically, the problem is my hobbit user can't display my log files:<br>
hobbit@host:/var/log$ cat messages<br>
cat: messages: Permission denied<br>
<br>
However, the user has these permissions/groups<br>
hobbit@host:/var/log$ id<br>
uid=110(hobbit) gid=110(hobbit) groups=0(root),4(adm),110(hobbit)<br>
<br>
The directories leading to the file have these permissions:<br>
hobbit@host:/var/log$ ls -ld /<br>
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Nov 19 2009 /<br>
hobbit@host:/var/log$ ls -ld /var<br>
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Nov 19 2009 /var<br>
hobbit@host:/var/log$ ls -ld /var/log<br>
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Mar 29 08:46 /var/log<br>
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The file has read permissions to the adm group of which we are a member<br>
(above)<br>
hobbit@host:/var/log$ ls -ld /var/log/messages<br>
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 21353 Mar 29 13:27 /var/log/messages<br>
<br>
Finally, here is all the info I can see on the file:<br>
hobbit@host:/var/log$ stat /var/log/messages<br>
File: `/var/log/messages'<br>
Size: 21353 Blocks: 48 IO Block: 1048576 regular file<br>
Device: eh/14d Inode: 4202796 Links: 1<br>
Access: (0640/-rw-r-----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 4/ adm)<br>
Access: 2011-03-28 20:21:00.000000000 +1100<br>
Modify: 2011-03-29 13:27:00.000000000 +1100<br>
Change: 2011-03-29 13:27:00.000000000 +1100<br>
<br>
I'm running a fairly standard Debian lenny<br>
<br>
The root user has no problem reading/writing the file/etc....<br>
<br>
Any pointers would be appreciated....<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Adam<br>
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