Thread: Logs perms and ownership
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 Thanks Steve
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 > > > Thanks > > Steve > > -- > Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin Add that user to the postgres group? -- Steve Holdoway <steve.holdoway@firetrust.com>
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 -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
Yeah, thought about that but as you said the perms on the logs are 700. on both stderr and syslogging. On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:22:45 -0700, Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ > PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ > United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ > Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > > > >
Correction, perms are 600. On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:22:45 -0700, Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ > PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ > United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ > Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > > > >