Bug#312412: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312412: logcheck: Fails to read files under /var/log/mail/

[maximilian attems]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Grahame White wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 July 2005 13:06, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Grahame White wrote:
<snipp>
> > > drwxrws---  2 root smmsp 1024 Jul 19 06:30 /var/log/mail/
> >
> > aah cool, no way logcheck could read inside of that dir.
> > sorry for my sendmail ignorance, but is that the default permission,
> > or did you harden it somehow?
> > is that an sarge installation or woody upgrade?
> 
> It was a standard woody install that I upgraded to sarge. I haven't touched 
> the permissions on this directory myself so I assume that whatever program 
> created it set them like that.
> 
> >
> > which are the member of aboves group:
> > getent group smmsp
> 
> No one is in the group.
> 
> >
> >
> > either you change aboves dir to be readable for the adm group
> > chgrp adm /var/log/mail/
> > (shouldn't pose problems to sendmail as it doesn't write aboves
> >  file with smmsp group permissions).
> 
> Certainly shouldn't! I just double-checked, I don't even have sendmail 
> installed :)

ok strange.
an smmsp google gave lots of sendmail hits, that's why i assumed it.
whats you mail transfer agent? (exim4, postfix, ..)
does it work fine with aboves change? 
i guess so, as nobody uses that group the permission group setting
of /var/log/mail seems more like an accident.

now that logcheck should run without troubles, can you confirm?
i guess we can close that bug.
 
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maks