[systemd-devel] systemd 211 journal getting created with different permissions

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 08:38:58PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 04:21:55AM +0200, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > With systemd 211, a new journal file is getting created with permissions
> > > of root:root instead of root:systemd-journal like previously (210 and
> > > prior).
> > >
> > > I looked at the git log and can't see anything obvious that would have
> > > caused this.
> > >
> > > Is this intentional?  Or something on my end with my system's
> > > configuration?
> > 
> > Normally the journal files just inherit the group of /var/log/journal,
> > which has the setgid bit (and the correct group) set by
> > /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf.
> 
> I thought so, and this worked on 210, and the permissions of
> /var/log/journal/ is correct:
> 
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root systemd-journal 4096 Mar 12 01:36 0da484f8dee497fee9585ba9531fb7f1
> 
> > If you ran `make install`, however, it would chown /var/log/journal to
> > 0:0 until the next time systemd-tmpfiles ran.
> 
> This gets created by the ebuild (this is on CoreOs), and the 210 ebuild
> worked, so what is different here?

Apologies, I can now reproduce this on systemd 210, so this isn't a 211
issue from what I can tell just yet, sorry for the noise.

greg k-h