On Tuesday 19 July 2005 13:06, you wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Grahame White wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 July 2005 12:07, maximilian attems wrote: > > <snipp> > > > > > > On Wed, 08 Jun 2005, Grahame white wrote: > > > > > > Since upgrading from woody to sarge I've been getting the > > > > > > following apperaring in the reports sent by logcheck: > > > > > > > > > > > > E: File could not be read: /var/log/mail/mail.err > > > > > > E: File could not be read: /var/log/mail/mail.warn > > > > > > E: File could not be read: /var/log/mail/mail.info > > > > > > E: File could not be read: /var/log/mail/mail.log > > > > > > rereading your bug report. > > > i forgot to ask about the permissions of the /var/log/mail/ dir. > > > please send the ouput of > > > ls -ld /var/log/mail/ > > > > drwxrws--- 2 root smmsp 1024 Jul 19 06:30 /var/log/mail/ > > aah cool, no way logcheck could read inside of that dir. > sorry for my sendmail ignorance, but is that the default permission, > or did you harden it somehow? > is that an sarge installation or woody upgrade?
It was a standard woody install that I upgraded to sarge. I haven't touched the permissions on this directory myself so I assume that whatever program created it set them like that. > > which are the member of aboves group: > getent group smmsp No one is in the group. > > > either you change aboves dir to be readable for the adm group > chgrp adm /var/log/mail/ > (shouldn't pose problems to sendmail as it doesn't write aboves > file with smmsp group permissions). Certainly shouldn't! I just double-checked, I don't even have sendmail installed :) > or you add logcheck to aboves group: > adduser --quiet logcheck smmsp > > -- > maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]