Author: ben
Description:
make common logs in labs instances readable by normal users, either by relaxing
the permissions (640 -> 644) or by addinrg normal users to the adm group.
Specifically /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages.
Referred To By:
{T80955}
laner wrote:
I'd much prefer to relax the permissions than add people to adm. The
latter may give more permissions than we are expecting, and it's not
something we'd really want to do globally.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Ben Hartshorne via RT
<core-ops at rt> wrote:
Tue Mar 27 22:40:46 2012: Request 2712 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by ben
Queue: core-ops
Subject: make labs instance's /var/log/ readable by default
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: <bhartshorne at wikimedia> >make common logs in labs instances readable by normal users, either by relaxing
the permissions (640 -> 644) or by addinrg normal users to the adm group.
Specifically /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages.
merged and works:
<dzahn at wikistats-01:~$ tail /var/log/messages
svc: failed to register
lockdv1 RPC service (errno 97).
<dzahn at wikistats-01:~$ tail /var/log/mail>