[Xymon] Hobbit Permission Problem

[David Baldwin]

On 29/03/11 3:34 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> On 29/03/2011 3:09 PM, David Baldwin wrote:
>>> Finally, here is all the info I can see on the file:
>>> hobbit at host:/var/log$ stat /var/log/messages
>>>   File: `/var/log/messages'
>>>   Size: 21353           Blocks: 48         IO Block: 1048576 regular file
>>> Device: eh/14d  Inode: 4202796     Links: 1
>>> Access: (0640/-rw-r-----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    4/     adm)
>>> Access: 2011-03-28 20:21:00.000000000 +1100
>>> Modify: 2011-03-29 13:27:00.000000000 +1100
>>> Change: 2011-03-29 13:27:00.000000000 +1100
>>>
>>> I'm running a fairly standard Debian lenny
>>>
>>> The root user has no problem reading/writing the file/etc....
>>>
>>> Any pointers would be appreciated....
>> My solution to this one is to modify /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and change
>> group permissions on the file in question. A better solution might be to
>> use ACLs, but I tried that once and ran into an issue where '-r' test
>> didn't respect ACLs when checking it could read the log file! That may
>> have been back in the days of BB even... Group permissions haven't
>> caused any issues anyway :)
> Thanks for your suggestion, but I have other processes that rely on the
> adm group having access to the log files, and I don't want to make them
> world readable.
>
Sorry, didn't read all your message closely enough.
> The very short problem is:
> 1) I am a user with a supplemental group (adm)
> 2) I have a file with my supplemental group (adm) which is group readable
> 3) I can't read the file
>
> I understand permissions, groups, etc very well, I understand logrotate
> and it's config files, but I am stumped as to why this isn't working....

Did you restart the hobbit client process after you changed the group
membership of the hobbit user?

David.

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David Baldwin - IT Unit
Australian Sports Commission          www.ausport.gov.au
Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
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