On Wed, 15 May 2013, Jagga Soorma wrote:
Hey Guys,
I am trying to push a configuration change to all my linux servers running
rsyslog to make sure /var/log/messages is chmod'd to 644 and the change I
am making in rsyslog.conf is:
--
$umask 0022 # FileCreationMode defaults to 644, so does not need to be
modified
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages
$umask 0077 # Reset the umask so /var/log/secure stays 600
--
I am also adding "create 0644 root root" in the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
file. However, when I restart rsyslog the permissions don't change. I
have to remove (rm) the /var/log/messages file and then restart rsyslog in
order for it to make this permission change. I need to do this on 100's of
servers via puppet and don't want to rm the /var/log/messages file. Is
there something I am missing. I have been able to do this easily with
syslog-ng on sles servers but can't get it to work on rsyslog servers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The easiest thing would be to change the rsyslog config and restart it, then
just wait for your regular file rotation to move the /var/log/messages file.
When rsyslog recreates it, it will use the new permissions.
David Lang
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