[Bug 878857] Re: Privileges problems while creating dynamic logfiles

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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 484336 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484336

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Privileges problems while creating dynamic logfiles

Status in “rsyslog” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  System: Ubuntu LTS 10.04.3 x86_64
  Kernel: 2.6.32-33-server
  Package: rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1

  Problem: when adding rules to create files based on templates rsyslog reports the following error:
  rsyslogd: Could not open dynamic file '/srv/log/apache2/vhostname_access_log.20111020' - discarding message

  files and directories however getting created with the following mask:

  drwxr-xr-x 2 syslog syslog  4096 2011-10-20 13:22 apache2
  -rw-r----- 1 syslog syslog    1125 2011-10-20 13:23 eurwebtest03.eurweb_access_log.20111020

  if i change the mask of the logfile to
  -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm    1125 2011-10-20 13:23 eurwebtest03.eurweb_access_log.20111020

  it is starting to work magically.

  Default ubuntu rsyslog settings:
  $FileOwner syslog
  $FileGroup adm
  $FileCreateMode 0640
  $DirCreateMode 0755
  $Umask 0022
  $PrivDropToUser syslog
  $PrivDropToGroup syslog

  Rules I added:

  rsyslog:
  $template ApacheLogFormat,"%msg:2:10000%\n"
  $template local6error,"/srv/log/apache2/%programname:13:50%_error_log.%$YEAR%%$MONTH%%$DAY%"
  $template local6access,"/srv/log/apache2/%programname:14:50%_access_log.%$YEAR%%$MONTH%%$DAY%"

  if $syslogfacility-text == 'local6' and $programname startswith 'httpd_error' then -?local6error;ApacheLogFormat
  #& ~

  if $syslogfacility-text == 'local6' and $programname startswith 'httpd_access' then -?local6access;ApacheLogFormat
  #& ~

  apache2:
  ErrorLog "|/usr/bin/logger -p local6.warn -t httpd_error_vhostname"
  CustomLog "|/usr/bin/logger -p local6.info -t httpd_access_vhostname" combined

  With the situation above rsyslog should have been able to write those created logfiles. I think it is a pretty annoying bug.
  I dont want to remove PrivDrop and nor want to add a cronjob to change the right mask all the newly created files.

  Please tell me if I have to provide further information. We are using
  LTS in production enviroment as it should be long term and fairly bug
  free OS.

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