Comment 2 for bug 565288
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| Rocko (rockorequin) wrote Re: rsyslog fails to read kmsg on newer (custom) kernels | #2 |
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Part of the problem seems to be that the patch to allow read access to kmsg to non-root users (see bug #515623, comment 1) isn't applied to 2.6.33.2. I applied the patch (it almost worked out-of-the-box, but I needed to define SYSLOG_
The patch appears to be included in 2.6.34-rc4, but I can't test this yet as it kernel panics on my PC at some point after X starts.
I still think rsyslog should default to the Debian behaviour (ie root access to kmsg) if 'de-rooting' doesn't work, but perhaps the quickest 'fix' for this is to include a release note saying that kernel logging is not supported with 2.6.33 kernels (or in fact any custom kernels prior to 2.6.34).