[Bigsister-general] Re: /var/log/messages: Permission denied

[Gil Freund <suppressed>]

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.

Put the syslog monitoring commands into a uxmon-asroot file instead of the
uxmon-net. The specific monitors stated in uxmon-asroot will be done with root
access.

> Surely this must has been resolved since.
> Does anybody care to share the solution?
> Thanks,
>   Costantino
>  
> 
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