Date: Sunday, March 19, 2017 13:32:57 +1300 From: Michael Heuberger <michael.heuberger@binarykitchen.com>
Hello guys
Having headaches here how to make logrotation for dovecot log files work. Having permission issues:
michael.heuberger@xxx /e/l/daily ❯❯❯ sudo logrotate -fv dovecot.daily ⏎ reading config file dovecot.daily
Handling 1 logs
rotating pattern: /var/log/dovecot*.log forced from command line (10 rotations) empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed considering log /var/log/dovecot.log error: skipping "/var/log/dovecot.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.
This is my current logrotation conf for dovecot:
/var/log/dovecot*.log { rotate 10 missingok sharedscripts postrotate doveadm log reopen endscript }
And the /var/log folder has these permissions:
drwxrwxr-x 12 root syslog 4.0K Mar 19 12:43 log
Any clues what's wrong?
As the message says:
because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not "root")
drwxrwxr-x 12 root syslog 4.0K Mar 19 12:43 log
On my RHEL derived systems, /var/log is root.root (and even then, is not writable by group).