LogsDirectory vs. group adm

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Thorsten,

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 1:17 PM Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> how can we make it so that a service that uses LogsDirectory
> has its logs readable by group adm?
>
> There is “LogsDirectoryMode=750” which we could change to 2750,
> but no way to set the group to adm, and from what I’ve read,
> pre-creating the /var/log/tomcat9 (in this case) as 2750 tomcat:adm
> will just make systemd chgrp it recursively?
>
> Having logs readable by group adm is customary on Debian, so how
> can this be implemented for non-sysvinit users?
>
>
You can ship a tmpfiles snippet like:

d /var/log/tomcat9 2750 root adm -

If you ship this, there is no need for a LogsDirectory= entry.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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