Bug 1970008 - VDSM service fails if the vdsm log file (/var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log) is not owned by vdsm:kvm
Summary: VDSM service fails if the vdsm log file (/var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log) is not owned...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: vdsm
Classification: oVirt
Component: SuperVDSM
Version: 4.40.60.7
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ovirt-4.4.7
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Assignee: Lev Veyde
QA Contact: Guilherme Santos
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-06-09 15:43 UTC by Lev Veyde
Modified: 2021-11-04 19:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-07-14 13:09:05 UTC
oVirt Team: Integration
Embargoed:
pm-rhel: ovirt-4.4+
sbonazzo: devel_ack+

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oVirt gerrit 115182 0 master MERGED Automatically fix bad ownership/access mode of vdsm log files 2021-06-11 14:52:28 UTC

Description Lev Veyde 2021-06-09 15:43:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
VDSM service fails if the vdsm log file (/var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log) is not owned by vdsm:kvm.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.40.60.7

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. change the ownership of /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log to i.e. root:root
2. try to start the vdsm service (vdsmd)
3. the service fails to start

Actual results:
service fails to start

Expected results:
service should start normally, at most giving a warning
Comment 1 Lukas Svaty 2021-07-14 13:09:05 UTC 
This bug has low overall severity and passed an automated regression 
suite, and is not going to be further verified by QE. If you believe 
special care is required, feel free to re-open to ON_QA status.
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