Re: [gentoo-user] Proper permissions for /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log?

[Bryan Gardiner]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:20:22 -0400
Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
> > I always run emerge as root. But back to my question: on all
> > boxes with "A" access rights I can not rotage portage logs.
> > All I get is mail from my cron saying: "error setting owner
> > of /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log-20110803.gz: Operation
> > not permitted..."
> >
> > On the other side, on boxes with "B" access rights (see above)
> > logs are rotated without problem. Logrotate-script is the same:
> >
> > /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log {
> >    su portage portage
> >    missingok
> >    nocreate
> >    delaycompress }
> >
> > So I suppose either there is something wrong with "A", or logrotate
> > script must be modified (although it works for "B")...
>
> For reference:
>
> On my laptop:
> ls -l /var/log/portage
> total 4
> drwxrwsr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Dec 29 18:45 elog
>
>
> On a very-fresh-install of Gentoo:
>
> ls -l /mnt/gentoo/var/log/portage/
> total 4
> drwxrwsr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Jun 25 14:16 elog
>
>
> It seems to me that the proper permissions for /var/log/portage/elog
> are likely:
> * chmod 0775
> * chown portage.portage

Agreed that these are the correct permissions (setgid seems sensible
too).  Bug #374287 talks about this ownership a bit.  Also, when
/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/elog/mod_save.py is invoked, it copies
the gid down to /var/log/portage/elog from /var/log/portage, so
mystery mostly solved...  But what accounts for the difference in
ownership of /var/log/portage?  :)

- Bryan