On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:23:56AM -0800, Backup e-mail wrote: > I've got a small issue with <disk> and <msgs> tests. They fail > with the following error messages: > Cannot open the log: /var/log/messages: Permission denied > Cannot open the log: /var/log/maillog: Permission denied > The issue is that the <bigsis> account doesn't have the rights > to read them, therefore I could fix the issue by giving it read > rights. Nevertheless for security reasons I don't think it's the > smartest remedy I should implement. > Surely this must has been resolved since. > Does anybody care to share the solution? I usually change the group of the logfiles to, say, daemon and put the bigsis user into that group. If I make the logfiles group-readable, so this should be fairly secure. HTH! Tino. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bigsister-general mailing list suppressed https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bigsister-general
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