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

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:07:35AM +0000, Greg KH wrote:
> When starting up journald on a new system, set the proper permissions on
> the system.journal file, not only on the journal directory.
> 
> diff --git a/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf b/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf
> index 7c6d6b9099b9..1aeb5e40f1ee 100644
> --- a/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf
> +++ b/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf
> @@ -24,5 +24,7 @@ d /run/systemd/shutdown 0755 root root -
>  
>  m /var/log/journal 2755 root systemd-journal - -
>  m /var/log/journal/%m 2755 root systemd-journal - -
> +m /var/log/journal/%m/system.journal 2755 root systemd-journal - -
>  m /run/log/journal 2755 root systemd-journal - -
>  m /run/log/journal/%m 2755 root systemd-journal - -
> +m /run/log/journal/%m/system.journal 2755 root systemd-journal - -
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.

Zbyszek