First - apologies for the vagueness that follows. I'm only an amateur and while I do record configurations I end up with, I don't record much if anything on the way. Second, I got here via installing rsyslog myself on Jaunty and then upgrading to Karmic which may also have confused things. I currently have rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu5.
Anyway, while trying to get to a setup I like, I've been having all sorts of trouble with file/dir permissions. I think I'm ok now and I can get on with the other stuff I want to do but I have a couple of observations/questions which may arise from either the package or my fingers. When I started looking at rsyslog after the upgrade, I found that rsyslog.conf did not set $DirOwner or $DirGroup at all. Having set those the same as $FileOwner and $FileGroup rsyslog managed to create the directories I want but I still had problems with dynafiles being created and eventually found this bug report. Following Rainer's link [1] in comment #28 I read in Michael's description that $PrivDropToUser and $PrivDropToGroup should be set the same as $FileOwner and $FileGroup. I had $PrivDropTo as syslog:syslog but $File as syslog:adm. I don't believe I set any of those myself. I've now set all the groups to syslog and things seem to be working now. This last issue leaves me questions though: - _must_ $PrivDropTo match $File? I haven't spotted that as a requirement anywhere else or even mentioned in the docs I've read. - should I have used syslog:syslog or syslog:adm? - is the intention behind group adm to give read-only access to various admin files for appropriate users? - if I use syslog:adm, should/must the syslog user be in group adm? -- [karmic] Messages not being sent to system logs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
