On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:05 +0100, Malcolm Hunter wrote:

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I have a slight problem with the msgs test.

This is what shows up in the client data: [msgs:/var/log/messages] Cannot open logfile /var/log/messages : Permission denied

But these are the permissions for the /var/log/messages: -rwxr-x--- 1 root admin 216864 Mar 13 12:19 /var/log/messages

And as you see, hobbit is a member of the admin group

id hobbit

uid=504(hobbit) gid=505(hobbit) groups=505(hobbit),506(admin)

And the hobbit client is indeed running as that user (output from ps, unneccesary parts omitted) hobbit 3781 [...] /usr/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitlaunch [..]

Any ideas?

Silly question: You have tried restarting the daemon, haven't you?

By the way, you don't want execute permission on the messages file.

Malcolm

hobbit had rights to read both into /var and /var/log

Looks like it worked after i restarted the client. But why? Doenst hobbit try to read /var/log/messages every time it sends the client data?

Benedikt