[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Fix permissions on new journal files

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:01:01PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 04:54:34PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> > Am 25.03.2014 01:40, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> > >> This is just a kludge... Why is system.journal to be treated differently?
> > >> It seems that the proper fix is to set the mode on the directory properly
> > >> during installation.
> > > 
> > > Precisely, packaging script are expected to properly chown and setfacl
> > > the directory on install. From the .spec file in Fedora:
> > 
> > This completely ignores the problem Dave mentions in his earlier post:
> > Volatile journals are owned by root:root.
> 
> I talked to Lennart about this last night on IRC -- we agreed that the
> solution here is to introduce an 'M' action in the tmpfiles language
> which is a recursive version of 'm'.

Cool, want me to code this up?

thanks,

greg k-h