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

[Jarry]

On 24-Jun-12 20:27, Dale wrote:
>> I have just checked my machines and I found I have basically
>> two groups of settings ("ls -al" in /var/log/portage/elog/):
>>
>> A)
>> drwxrws--- 2 portage root     4096 Jun 24 03:10 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root    root     4096 Apr  7  2009 ..
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage root    57760 Jun 22 15:11 summary.log
>>
>> B)
>> drwxrwsr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Jun 24 13:30 .
>> drwxrws--- 3 portage portage 4096 Nov  3  2011 ..
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 1132 Jun 22 17:28 summary.log
>>
>> So is the "B-version" correct one?
>
> This is my thinking on why it may be different for different folks.
> This first tho.  I run emerge as root.  I have not added my regular user
> to the portage group.  I have no memory of messing with the permissions
> either.
>
> I think that if you use a regular user to emerge some things, it gets
> set to portage:portage or some mix of portage:root.  If you always run
> emerge as root, then you get root:root.  It may be that this is only set
> once or that it could be modified if you run as root then later on run
> as a user.

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")...

Jarry

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