We had this problem aswell at our site.
What seems to be happening is logrotate makes a new /var/log/messages file and changes the permissions on the file. What we did to fix this was:
1. Make a new goup and add the hobbit/bb user to the grp.
2. Edit /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and add/edit the following line
create 640 root "name of group"
Then hobbit/bb should be able to read the file.
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From: Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid] Sent: 16. maí 2008 06:56
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] /var/log/messages permission denied
chgrp HOBBITUSER /var/log/messages
chmod g+r /var/log/messages
Taken from: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Gavin Leonard <user-d65663809eb4@xymon.invalid> wrote:
When I look at my messages status on the Main BB page I only see this? Do I need to change the perms on the /var/log/messages folder?
No entries in /var/log/messages <http://misery.pgx.local/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=pbx-01&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages>; Full log /var/log/messages <http://misery.pgx.local/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=pbx-01&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages>; Cannot open logfile /var/log/messages : Permission denied
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