Cannot start eturnal service
RuiRosado opened this issue · comments
Hi,
I am trying to start the eturnal service on a Linux CentOS 7 (x86_64, AMD EPYC processor), but not succeeding ...
Seems the error is related to permissions on /dev/log (see attached screenshot).
Any idea how to solve this?
BTW:
ls -l /dev/log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Sep 6 17:23 /dev/log -> /run/systemd/journal/dev-log
I hope you can help.
Thanks.
Rui Rosado
We tried to reproduce the issue by installing CentOS 7 but things work just fine here. It seems your systemd/journald version/setup is different from what I got after installing CentOS 7 and running yum update, though. On my system, the old systemd-journald.socket unit is used, which reads /dev/log directly. I.e., /dev/log is not a symlink (to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log) on a vanilla CentOS 7 system, as far as I can see. So I'm not quite sure how to reproduce your issue, I'm afraid.
Anyway, what's the output of ls -l /run/systemd/journal/dev-log?
Thanx, Holger for looking into this. The output of
ls -l /run/systemd/journal/dev-log
srw-rw---- 1 root mysyslog 0 May 1 15:54 /run/systemd/journal/dev-log
Ok, so only processes run by users in the mysyslog group are permitted to log messages on your system (quick web search sounds as if that might be a ConfigServer thing?). I guess one workaround could be to add eturnal to that group, e.g. by calling systemctl edit eturnal and entering:
[Service]
SupplementaryGroups=mysyslogThat solved our problem!
Thank you for your help, Holger.
Cheers
Rui