On Mon, 08 May 2017 16:50:42 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> As /var/log/messages is so determinedly accessible only to root, can
> any log analyser ever work?

I've used logcheck and have /var/log/messages readable by it.

-rw-r----- 1 root logcheck 811K May  9 08:46 /var/log/messages

I have this in syslog-ng.conf

options {
        [snip default stuff]

        #(Make log files group-readable by logcheck)
        group(logcheck);
        perm(0640);
};


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