Our approach to this issue is to have hobbit client install/removal non-intrusive to client system.
1. have hobbit client depend on sudo package.
2. add entry for hobbit client's account in sudoer file.
3. make sure SUDO is point to correct sudo binary.
4. remove hobbit client entry upon removal of hobbit client package.
T.J. Yang
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:10:22 +0000
From: user-86d0ecc4f2c5@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] /var/log/messages permission denied
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
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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 Full log /var/log/messagesCannot open logfile /var/log/messages : Permission denied
Gavin Leonard
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