From 2bd7cbd12c19df6b6e36783f76553499d26eec98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "A. Karl Kornel" <akkornel@stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 11:50:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] syslog: Ubuntu uses a non-root account for syslog files
---
manifests/syslog.pp | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/manifests/syslog.pp b/manifests/syslog.pp
index e835e26..a046df0 100644
--- a/manifests/syslog.pp
+++ b/manifests/syslog.pp
@@ -25,8 +25,19 @@
class base::syslog {
+ # Ubuntu uses a separate account for syslog
+ if ( $::operatingsystem == 'Ubuntu' ) {
+ $syslog_owner = 'syslog'
+ $syslog_group = 'adm'
+ } else {
+ $syslog_owner = 'root'
+ $syslog_group = 'root'
+ }
+
base::syslog::config::syslog { '/etc/syslog.conf':
ensure => present,
+ owner => $syslog_owner,
+ group => $syslog_group,
}
# RHEL4/5 are ancient and use syslog, everything modern uses rsyslog
@@ -42,7 +53,11 @@ class base::syslog {
name => 'rsyslog',
hasstatus => true,
}
- base::syslog::config::rsyslog { '/etc/rsyslog.conf': ensure => present }
+ base::syslog::config::rsyslog { '/etc/rsyslog.conf':
+ ensure => present,
+ owner => $syslog_owner,
+ group => $syslog_group,
+ }
}
# Create a symlink from /var/log/syslog to /var/log/messages for the
--
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