[ovirt-users] Strange permissions on Hosted Engine HA Agent log files

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Giuseppe Ragusa <
giuseppe.ragusa at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm installing oVirt (3.6) in self-hosted mode, hyperconverged with
> GlusterFS (3.7.6).
>
> I'm using the oVirt snapshot generated the night between the 18th and 19th
> of November, 2015.
>
> The (single, at the moment) host and the Engine are both CentOS 7.1 fully
> up-to-date.
>
> After ovirt-hosted-engine-setup successful completion, I found the
> following (about 3 days after setup completed) "anomalies":
>
> 666 1 vdsm kvm - /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/agent.log
> 666 1 vdsm kvm - /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/agent.log.2015-11-23
> 666 1 vdsm kvm - /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.log
> 666 1 vdsm kvm - /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.log.2015-11-23
>
> The listing above comes from a custom security checking script that gives:
>
> "octal permissions" "number of links" "owner" "group" - "absolute pathname"
>
> Is the ominous "666" mark actually intended/necessary? ;-)
>

Thanks for the report Giuseppe, I double checked on one of my test systems.

[root at c71het20151028 ~]# ls -l /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/*
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root    10136 Nov 27 18:08
/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/agent.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  1769029 Oct 29 17:20
/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/agent.log.2015-10-28
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 vdsm kvm     97685 Oct 29 18:21
/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/agent.log.2015-10-29
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  3620102 Nov 25 12:09
/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/agent.log.2015-11-24
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 vdsm kvm    715086 Nov 25 17:01
/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/agent.log.2015-11-25
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root    13904 Nov 27 18:09
/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  9711872 Oct 29 17:20
/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.log.2015-10-28
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 vdsm kvm    468475 Oct 29 18:21
/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.log.2015-10-29
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 14066693 Nov 25 12:09
/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.log.2015-11-24
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 vdsm kvm   4505277 Nov 25 17:01
/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.log.2015-11-25


So I've something 644 root:root and something at 666 vdsm:kvm depending
from the rotation date (???).
The directory is 700 vdsm:kvm so it's not really an issue but I think it's
still worth to open a bug on that.



> Do I need to open a bugzilla notification for this?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your attention.
>
> Regards,
> Giuseppe
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