Bug#805617: systemd: journalctl --system as user: "No journal files were found"

[Michael Biebl]

Am 20.11.2015 um 10:44 schrieb Andreas Krüger:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 215-17+deb8u2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear maintainers,
> 
> summary: Permission problem with files created
> below /var/log/journal, systemd-journal group
> cannot read.
> 
> Details:
> 
> On this Jessie system, as a user that's a member
> of the systemd-journal group, I run some
> `journalctl --system ...` command and get
> the error message `No journal files were found.`.
> 
> This is not the behaviour I expect,
> as, according to the journalctl manual page,
> 
>> ... users who are members of the "systemd-journal"
>> group get access to the system journal ...
> 
> Doing the same command as root produces the expected output.
> 
> This seems to be a permission problem regarding the
> files in /var/log/journal (which exists on my machine).

How exactly did you create the /var/log/journal directory?


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