Bug#934284: journal sometimes with x-bit, sometimes without

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 01:49:18AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 09:10:39 +0200 Marc Haber
> <mh+debian-bugs at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:37:04PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > Of course not, but no components that I have installed willingly. I'll roll out
> > > a monitoring job that runs more often than once daily so that the change gets
> > > timed more exactly. Unless I report back, don't bother with more research, it
> > > might be a real stupid thing.
> > 
> > Preliminary result is that after a reboot, the journal files seem to be
> > created without an x bit, and the x bit is then set some hours later,
> > unfortunately without corresponding log entries and not obviously
> > related to events happening on the machine.
> > 
> > I'll try to make out a pattern.
> 
> Did you have success with finding out more about this?

Other that the issue still happens on nearly all my servers, no. I'll
skim the systemd sources for code that might be changing a file's mode
in due time. Don't hold your breath though.

Greetings
Marc

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