[systemd-devel] cannot view my own logs?

[Michael Biebl]

2013/10/9 Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <rudd-o at rudd-o.com>:
> I'm trying to audit my user logs on my system but journalctl shows nothing,
> saying
>
> No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
>
> journald has created these files:
>
> total 587,776
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root                    4 Oct  8 22:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root                    3 Oct  8 22:09 ..
> -rw-r----- 1 root systemd-journal 3,891,200 Oct  9 00:45 system.journal
> -rw-r----- 1 root systemd-journal 3,792,896 Oct  9 00:45 user-501.journal
>
> why isn't it creating the files with the proper permissions?

Is your file system mounted with the acl flag?
It looks like your user journal file has no ACL permissions set (you
can check with getfacl)



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