Am 05.08.2011 17:22, schrieb Jarry: > Hi, > today I received this mail from cron: > --- > error: skipping "/var/log/portage/elog/summary.log" because > parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable > or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive > in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be > used for rotation. > --- > > My /var/log/portage/elog has this permissions: > drwxrws--- 2 portage portage 4096 Jun 1 2010 elog > > What is wrong with it? I'm pretty sure I did not touch it > for years so I'm surprised logrotate is suddenly complaining > (it has been updated recently, that might be reason). > > Anyway, how should those permissions look like to make > logrotate (and cron) happy? > > Jarry >
Yes, this was introduced in 3.8.0 to fix security issues [1]. Change
your config to look like this:
/var/log/portage/elog/summary.log {
su portage portage
...
}
Disclaimer: I've not really tried this (yet) but I think I'm able to
read changelogs and man-pages. ;-)
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680799
Regards,
Florian Philipp
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