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Hello,

I am running 5.6.2 on a 64-bit CentOS 7 VM.

I upgraded my backup and test servers to 5.6.2. I went from 5.5.11 -> 5.6.0 -> 5.6.1 -> 5.6.2

I am seeing this:
Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on <redacted>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 03:09:03 -0500 (CDT)
Status: RO

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: skipping "/usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cleaner.log" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation.

Here are the permissions:

[root@redacted ~]# ls -ald /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cleaner.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 17228467 May 28 09:52 /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cleaner.log

[root@redacted ~]# ls -ald /usr/local/nagiosxi/var
drwxrwxr-x 7 nagios nagios 4096 May 28 09:52 /usr/local/nagiosxi/var

[root@redacted ~]# ls -ald /usr/local/nagiosxi
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 102 Feb 11 12:22 /usr/local/nagiosxi

Earl

Hello, @Bitflogger. Please run the following commands: And let me know if your issue gets resolved.

I will check tomorrow morning.

I do run the sudo command to install.

Earl

@Bitflogger, Sounds good, I'll leave this thread open for you.

Hello,

It almost seems like the ownership of /usr/local/nagiosxi may have reverted to root.

Anyway, I set the ownership correctly and tried running logrotate:

[user@redacted ~]$ ls -ald /usr/local/nagiosxi
drwxr-xr-x 10 nagios nagios 102 Feb 11 12:22 /usr/local/nagiosxi
[user@redacted ~]$ ls -ald /usr/local/nagiosxi/*
drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 296 May 24 09:17 /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron
drwxr-xr-x 4 nagios nagios 67 May 3 14:44 /usr/local/nagiosxi/etc
drwxr-xr-x 17 nagios nagios 4096 Mar 6 13:03 /usr/local/nagiosxi/html
drwxr-xr-x 3 nagios nagios 25 Feb 11 12:22 /usr/local/nagiosxi/nom
drwxr-xr-x 4 nagios nagios 4096 May 24 09:17 /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts
drwsrwsr-x 2 nagios nagios 6 Apr 22 16:27 /usr/local/nagiosxi/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Feb 11 12:22 /usr/local/nagiosxi/tools
drwxrwxr-x 7 nagios nagios 4096 May 29 08:46 /usr/local/nagiosxi/var
[user@redacted ~]$ sudo /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
error: skipping "/usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cleaner.log" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation.
error: skipping "/usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation.
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Hello,

It looks like my /usr/local/nagiosxi directory reverted back to root:root

This fixes logrotate so far:

cat /etc/logrotate.d/nagiosxi
/usr/local/nagiosxi/var/*log {
su nagios nagios
missingok
notifempty
size 5M
rotate 1
compress
}

/usr/local/nagiosxi/var/xidebug.log {
su nagios nagios
missingok
notifempty
size 100M
create 0660 apache nagios
rotate 1
compress
}

/usr/local/nagiosxi/var/xidebug.log.backtrace {
su nagios nagios
missingok
notifempty
size 100M
create 0660 apache nagios
rotate 1
compress
}

Hello,

It turns out that Puppet was changing the directory permissions.

I have root:root for /usr/local/nagiosxi on my production server, v 5.5.11 and no logrotate problem.

Should the owner/group be nagios:nagios for /usr/local/nagiosxi instead or root:root ?

Earl

@Bitflogger, Yes, please set /usr/local/nagiosxi to root:nagios or nagios:nagios on the production server.
root:nagios should be more secure.
/usr/local/nagiosxi/var should be set to nagios:nagios.

Hello,

I have my /usr/local/nagiosxi directory set to root:nagios

When I take the "su nagios nagios" line out of /etc/logrotate.d/nagiosxi file, I get

[user@server ~]$ date
Thu May 30 07:49:04 CDT 2019
[user@server ~]$ sudo /etc/cron.daily/logrotate -v
error: skipping "/usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cleaner.log" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation.
error: skipping "/usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation.
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[user@server ~]$ ls -ald /usr/local/nagiosxi
drwxr-xr-x 10 root nagios 102 Oct 22 2018 /usr/local/nagiosxi

Hello,

On my servers, /usr/local/nagiosxi is a mount point.

Earl