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logcheck on Fedora Core 3
Posted by simonw on Fri 4 Apr 2008 at 15:10
logcheck depends on lockfiles-progs
lockfile-progs depends on liblockfile
Compiling all 3 from the tarballs for Sid got me a working logcheck.
FC3 doesn't seem to have made an allowance for unprivileged folks to read logfiles, but it looks like logrotate just keeps the same file permissons they had before, so I added logcheck to group adm and gave group adm read to the relevant logfiles.
Note to self: when "moving" all the files in a directory called "bin", make sure you haven't forgotten you've changed directory to "/bin" first as moving all the files out of "/bin" isn't a smart thing to do. My worst typo as root this millennium. But hey he needs to upgrade from FC3.
lockfile-progs depends on liblockfile
Compiling all 3 from the tarballs for Sid got me a working logcheck.
FC3 doesn't seem to have made an allowance for unprivileged folks to read logfiles, but it looks like logrotate just keeps the same file permissons they had before, so I added logcheck to group adm and gave group adm read to the relevant logfiles.
Note to self: when "moving" all the files in a directory called "bin", make sure you haven't forgotten you've changed directory to "/bin" first as moving all the files out of "/bin" isn't a smart thing to do. My worst typo as root this millennium. But hey he needs to upgrade from FC3.