log permissions

list Henrik Størner
Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:16:58 +0200
Message-Id: <user-33c0bec4d1fd@xymon.invalid>

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 04:58:07PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:

By default Hobbit installs with its log reading module SUID root, so 
that it can read root-owned logfiles.

No, that was a mistake done in one of the early 4.2.0 beta versions.
The release version refuses to run as suid-root.

The recommended solution is to make the Hobbit user be a member of a
group that has read-access to the logfiles.


Regards,
Henrik