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Logrotate question to Permit Splunk user to read syslog?

daniel333
Builder

All,

I have /var/log/messages on a host I want Splunk to be able to read. Here is my log rotation config. Splunk user is working. But cannot read the file even after logrotate runs this rotation.

/var/log/cron
/var/log/maillog
/var/log/messages
/var/log/secure
/var/log/spooler
{
missingok
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null 2> /dev/null || true
/usr/bin/setfacl -m u:splunk:r /var/log/*
endscript
}

If I manually go and run "/usr/bin/setfacl -m u:splunk:r /var/log/*" it works how ever.

Am I missing something?

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