reading /var/log/messages

Have you restarted the xymon client?  Changes to linux group memberships on
apply to new logins...

Kind regards, 

SebA  


From: Elizabeth Jones [mailto:user-a47755762131@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 14 September 2015 16:36
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: reading /var/log/messages


We just set up splunk in our environment and have made all our
/var/log/messages owned by root:splunk mode 640 so that splunk can read and
index these files.  I was thinking I could add xymon user to splunk group
and that would allow xymon to read /var/log/messages as well, but it doesn't
seem to be working.  I can read /var/log/messages as the xymon user but the
msgs web page is still showing 

Cannot open logfile /var/log/messages : Permission denied
Any ideas on what else I can do to allow xymon to get these logs?