On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:30:08PM +0200, General Stone wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Peter Eisentraut schrieb: > > This is not a matter of reading the logs but writing the logs. The ntpd > > daemon runs as ntp:ntp, so the permissions need to be set appropriately. > > In > > order to have general read access to log files on Debian, you need to be > > root. > > What I meen is, that the logs could be have another group-permission, > but not another user-permission. On my server I have an user which is in > the adm group and need to read the logfiles. If the server restarts from > the init-script, the group will be changed to the group ntp, and the > user can not read the log-files.
There are several things you can do: - Change the init script yourself. It's a configuration file, so it won't get overriden on upgrade, and if we change it, it should and come ask you. I suggest you just remove the line in your case. - Add the user to the ntp group. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
