[hobbit] Logfile not accessible

[Jerry Yu]

what OS r u on ? could it be some ACL or SELinux policy or alike to forbid
the process/daemon to access while interactive shell is ok?

On 11/28/06, James Wade <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com> wrote:
>
> The group membership has always been the same.
> I've never changed it, and the group membership and ownership
> of the logfiles, both working and non-working are the same.
>
> How does Hobbit look at log files? A standard Cat, Grep, Tail?
>
> Can anyone give me a way to debug this?
>
> Thanks.....James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:01 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Cc: James Wade
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Logfile not accessible
>
> On Tuesday 28 November 2006 01:02, James Wade wrote:
> > I'm monitoring about 8 log files on a system, and on some
> >
> > of them, I'm getting a "Logfile not accessible" .
> >
> >
> >
> > I can login to the box as the hobbit user and cat the files out
> >
> > just fine. The privileges all match up with the other logfiles that are
> >
> > working just fine. Manually, I can see the files just fine.
>
> But, if you changed the hobbit user's group memberships since you last
> restarted the hobbit client, you would receive the new group when logging
> in,
> but the client would still be running without that group.
>
> So, try restarting the client.
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
>
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> Buchan Milne
> ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
> B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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