Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Magnus Therning
waldek wrote: Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 11:05:13 Thomas Bächler napisał(a): Magnus Therning schrieb: interesting, it did not work for me. in the /etc/syslog-ng.conf there was: group("log"); and syslog-ng ignored this setting, I changed it to: group(19); as specified in the man page and

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 12:01 +0200, bardo wrote: > I was requested by a user to create a /var/log/mldonkey/ directory and > put log files there, owned by the daemon-configured user, however I'm > not too fond of the idea of having user-owned files in a system > directory like /var/log/, even though

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread waldek
Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 11:05:13 Thomas Bächler napisał(a): > Magnus Therning schrieb: > >> interesting, it did not work for me. in the /etc/syslog-ng.conf there > >> was: > >> > >> group("log"); > >> > >> and syslog-ng ignored this setting, I changed it to: > >> > >> group(19); > >> > >> as

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Alessandro Doro
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 09:54:08AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > waldek wrote: >> Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 09:50:47 Thomas Bächler napisał(a): >>> Magnus Therning schrieb: Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group other than root:root? I'd like to ma

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread bardo
2009/6/13 Thomas Bächler : > syslog-ng uses root:log in its default configuration. If it doesn't check > /etc/syslog-ng.conf.pacnew and see if the log group exists for you. I'll almost hijack the thread because I have an issue open with log files in a [community] package, mldonkey. This package ha

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Magnus Therning schrieb: interesting, it did not work for me. in the /etc/syslog-ng.conf there was: group("log"); and syslog-ng ignored this setting, I changed it to: group(19); as specified in the man page and it works fine now. Yes, same here. There should be a bug raised I guess. If n

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Magnus Therning
waldek wrote: Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 09:50:47 Thomas Bächler napisał(a): Magnus Therning schrieb: Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group other than root:root? I'd like to make it possible for some users to read the logs in /var/log. Any good suggestion

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread waldek
Dnia sobota 13 czerwiec 2009 o 09:50:47 Thomas Bächler napisał(a): > Magnus Therning schrieb: > > Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group > > other than root:root? I'd like to make it possible for some users to > > read the logs in /var/log. > > > > Any good suggest

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Magnus Therning schrieb: Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group other than root:root? I'd like to make it possible for some users to read the logs in /var/log. Any good suggestion for an already existing group to use? I was thinking of either log or wheel, a

[arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-12 Thread Magnus Therning
Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group other than root:root? I'd like to make it possible for some users to read the logs in /var/log. Any good suggestion for an already existing group to use? I was thinking of either log or wheel, any thoughts? /M -- Magn