Re: Logs perms and ownership - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Joshua Drake
Subject Re: Logs perms and ownership
Date
Msg-id 20080825192245.1a4da5be@jd-laptop
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In response to Re: Logs perms and ownership  (Steve Holdoway <steve.holdoway@firetrust.com>)
Responses Re: Logs perms and ownership  (<steve@outtalimits.com.au>)
Re: Logs perms and ownership  (<steve@outtalimits.com.au>)
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:11:13 +1200
Steve Holdoway <steve.holdoway@firetrust.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:42:19 +1000
> <steve@outtalimits.com.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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