Bug#50859: xfs Bug #50859: use start-stop-daemon --chuid ?
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 21:52:58 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-05-16 13:07 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 08:16:20 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> >> Just FYI, I've been running xfs with this patch for the last few days
> >> and don't have any problems. Could this be uploaded to unstable to get
> >> xfs back into testing?
> >>
> > One question though: how can xfs reopen its log file when running as
> > nobody
>
> Not at all, good catch. I just didn't know it even has a log file.
> How about compiling with -DUSE_SYSLOG?
>
> > (CloneMyself() calls InitErrors() currently, and we may want to
> > have xfs reopen its log file for logrotate, too)?
>
> If it is worth to rotate the log file, which is currently not done.
>
So how about creating a dedicated user for xfs, and moving logs to a
/var/log/xfs/ directory where this user can write?
Cheers,
Julien
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