[syslog-ng] disk buffer files permissions

[Pal, Laszlo]

Hi Ahmed,

Than you for your suggestion. setfacl solved my permission issues :)

L:


On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 1:28 PM Ahmed Soyef <Soyef.Ahmed34 at homeoffice.gov.uk>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> Just chiming in here and could be totally off the mark but this sounds
> like a great candidate for using built in Linux ACLs. Should be able to
> give the Zabbix user permissions for anything created in that directory
> using setfacl.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Soyef
>
>
>
> *From:* syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu> *On Behalf Of *Pal,
> Laszlo
> *Sent:* 13 July 2020 12:24
> *To:* Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <
> syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
> *Subject:* [syslog-ng] disk buffer files permissions
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> We want to monitor disk-buffer files, so we can detect if there is are
> some issues with the destinations. syslog-ng creates these files with
> permissions like this
>
>
>
> otal 360
>
> -rw-------. 1 root root   4096 Oct 10  2019 syslog-ng-00000.qf
>
> -rw-------. 1 root root   4096 Jul 12 03:49 syslog-ng-00001.qf
>
>
>
> So, our monitor script (for zabbix) cannot stat files because it is
> running under user zabbix.
>
>
>
> I'm not sure how to submit a feature request nowadays, but it would be
> great of perm() option added to disk-buffer()
>
>
>
> Any chance?
>
> Thx
>
> L:
>
>
>
>
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