Comment 14 for bug 1287624

Can you explain what munge is and what the bug is briefly to someone who
has no idea why that message is coming up?

Thank you

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Steve Beattie <email address hidden> wrote:

> And here is a debdiff for xenial. Until I can get these sponsored into
> the respective proposed pockets for trusty and xenial, I have built
> packages available in my ppa at
> https://launchpad.net/~sbeattie/+archive/ubuntu/ppa for people to test.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> ** Patch added: "munge_0.5.11-3ubuntu0.1.debdiff"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/munge/+bug/
> 1287624/+attachment/4894936/+files/munge_0.5.11-3ubuntu0.1.debdiff
>
> ** Also affects: munge (Ubuntu Xenial)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Also affects: munge (Ubuntu Trusty)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: munge (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Fix Released
>
> ** Changed in: munge (Ubuntu Trusty)
> Status: New => Triaged
>
> ** Changed in: munge (Ubuntu Trusty)
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Changed in: munge (Ubuntu Xenial)
> Status: New => Triaged
>
> ** Changed in: munge (Ubuntu Xenial)
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
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>
> Title:
> Munged does not start
>
> Status in munge package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in munge source package in Trusty:
> Triaged
> Status in munge source package in Xenial:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Munge daemon does not start in ubuntu 14.04 beta.
>
> sudo service munge start
> * Starting MUNGE munged
> [fail]
> munged: Error: Logfile is insecure: group-writable permissions set on
> "/var/log"
>
> /var/log permissions are (I have not changed them in any way):
> drwxrwxr-x 13 root syslog 4,0K maali 4 06:40 log
>
> However, I can start munge manually by running "sudo munged -f", which
> runs the daemon despite warnings.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
> Package: munge 0.5.11-1ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.28-generic 3.13.2
> Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Mar 4 11:30:24 2014
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-26 (5 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64
> (20140219)
> SourcePackage: munge
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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