Doh, this is so obvious it's embarrassing. rsyslog is dropping privileges to 'rsyslog:rsyslog'
/var/log is set as follows: drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2009-08-16 07:20 /var/log The files appear to be created before the privileges are dropped - hence why it seems to work for a bit and then stops. -rw-r----- 1 root adm 88 2009-08-16 08:39 kern.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 354 2009-08-16 08:39 syslog -rw-r----- 1 root adm 354 2009-08-16 08:39 messages Plus the console has the wrong permissions. prw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2009-08-16 08:47 /dev/xconsole And of course when you HUP the syslog daemon it reopens the files and gets permission denied. So we need to get the permissions sorted out - and figure out why rsyslog is able to open the log files are root. Which package does the initial create on /var/log? -- [karmic] Messages not being sent to system logs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
