Re: Logs perms and ownership

From: <steve(at)outtalimits(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Steve Holdoway <steve(dot)holdoway(at)firetrust(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Logs perms and ownership
Date: 2008-08-26 02:31:26
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Correction, perms are 600.

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:22:45 -0700, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:11:13 +1200
> Steve Holdoway <steve(dot)holdoway(at)firetrust(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:42:19 +1000
>> <steve(at)outtalimits(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Is there a way to make the postgres logs readable by other users or
>> > a group apart from postgres:postgres?
>> > I am on postgres 8.1
>> >
>> > I cannot see any feature to allow setting perms or ownership
>> >
>
>>
>> Add that user to the postgres group?
>>
>
> Actually that may or may not work. If the log directory is under
> $PGDATA then it won't because $PGDATA must be 0700. If the log
> directory is elsewhere or he is using syslog he can get around it.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
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