Re: Error with logrotate.

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Error with logrotate.
Date	2019-08-13 15:20 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 09:30:34AM +1200, Philip wrote:
> I just updated from Debian 8 to 9 and I'm getting the following error.  I'm
> guessing it's something to do with permissions?
> 
> Something to do with the create 640 root adm?
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
> error: unable to open /home/philip/logs/access.log.1 for compression

Could be permissions, yes.

> /home/philip/logs/*.log {
> 	su philip philip
[...]
> 	create 640 root adm

If you're running as "philip:philip" then you can't create files as
"root:adm".

Moreover, any existing files like /home/philip/logs/access.log.1 that
are owned by "root:adm" can't be written by a process running as
"philip:philip".

Most likely, what you want to do is replace the "create 640 root adm"
with "create 640 philip philip", and then verify/change the ownership
of any existing files, as well as the directory they're in, so that
the logrotate process running as "philip:philip" can read and write
everything.

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Error with logrotate. Philip <philip@treads.nz> - 2019-08-12 23:40 +0200
  Re: Error with logrotate. Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2019-08-13 06:10 +0200
    Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 06:40 +0200
      Re: Error with logrotate. Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-08-13 07:10 +0200
      Re: Error with logrotate. Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-08-13 07:40 +0200
        Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 11:00 +0200
      Re: Error with logrotate. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-13 08:30 +0200
        Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 11:20 +0200
          Re: Error with logrotate. Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-08-13 12:00 +0200
            Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 16:00 +0200
              Re: Error with logrotate. Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-08-13 19:20 +0200
                Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 19:40 +0200
          Re: Error with logrotate. Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-08-13 21:10 +0200
            Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 22:00 +0200
            Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 22:30 +0200
        Re: OT: While we're talking about logrotate (was: Re: Error with logrotate.) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-08-13 14:10 +0200
    Re: Error with logrotate. Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-08-13 07:10 +0200
  Re: Error with logrotate. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-08-13 15:20 +0200

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