news logfiles should be owned by news:news for news.daily

[Koos van den Hout]

Binary package hint: rsyslog

news.daily could not open /var/log/news/news.notice , /var/log/news/news.err and /var/log/news/news.crit to process and rotate them since rsyslog writes them as user:group syslog:adm.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-generic 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 23 13:39:59 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rsyslog

[Koos van den Hout (koos-kzdoos)]

Workaround, separate logging rules for newws (for readability) and change the FileOwner and FileGroup.

diff -uNr rsyslog.d.orig/50-default.conf rsyslog.d/50-default.conf
--- rsyslog.d.orig/50-default.conf 2011-03-23 14:14:53.000000000 +0100
+++ rsyslog.d/50-default.conf 2011-03-23 13:27:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -22,12 +22,6 @@
 mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn
 mail.err /var/log/mail.err

-#
-# Logging for INN news system.
-#
-news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
-news.err /var/log/news/news.err
-news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice

 #
 # Some "catch-all" log files.
diff -uNr rsyslog.d.orig/60-news.conf rsyslog.d/60-news.conf
--- rsyslog.d.orig/60-news.conf 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ rsyslog.d/60-news.conf 2011-03-23 13:37:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+$FileOwner news
+$FileGroup news
+
+#
+# Logging for INN news system.
+#
+news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
+news.err /var/log/news/news.err
+news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice
+
+$FileOwner syslog
+$FileGroup adm

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago