Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate: /var/log/portage/elog "insecure permissions"?

[Florian Philipp]

Am 05.08.2011 17:22, schrieb Jarry:
> Hi,
> today I received this mail from cron:
> ---
> error: skipping "/var/log/portage/elog/summary.log" because
> parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable
> or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive
> in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be
> used for rotation.
> ---
>
> My /var/log/portage/elog has this permissions:
> drwxrws--- 2 portage portage 4096 Jun  1  2010 elog
>
> What is wrong with it? I'm pretty sure I did not touch it
> for years so I'm surprised logrotate is suddenly complaining
> (it has been updated recently, that might be reason).
>
> Anyway, how should those permissions look like to make
> logrotate (and cron) happy?
>
> Jarry
>

Yes, this was introduced in 3.8.0 to fix security issues [1]. Change
your config to look like this:
/var/log/portage/elog/summary.log {
su portage portage
...
}

Disclaimer: I've not really tried this (yet) but I think I'm able to
read changelogs and man-pages. ;-)

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680799

Regards,
Florian Philipp