Have you restarted the xymon client? Changes to linux group memberships on apply to new logins...
Kind regards,
SebA
From: Elizabeth Jones [mailto:oogiejonz at yahoo.com] Sent: 14 September 2015 16:36 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: reading /var/log/messages
We just set up splunk in our environment and have made all our /var/log/messages owned by root:splunk mode 640 so that splunk can read and index these files. I was thinking I could add xymon user to splunk group and that would allow xymon to read /var/log/messages as well, but it doesn't seem to be working. I can read /var/log/messages as the xymon user but the msgs web page is still showing
Cannot open logfile /var/log/messages : Permission denied Any ideas on what else I can do to allow xymon to get these logs?