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

[Giuseppe Ragusa]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015, at 18:15, Simone Tiraboschi wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Many thanks Simone for your confirmation: bug opened

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286568

Regards,
Giuseppe


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