Kyum: /var/log/yum.log, could not be opened for reading.

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jul 4 13:01:51 UTC 2006


ron wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:18 -0400, ron wrote:
> 
>     But I still get:
> 
>     "/var/log/yum.log  could not be opened for reading."
> 
>     I removed  kyum, erased all remaining files, reinstalled kyum, and set
>     SELinux to permissive.
> 
>     But still no luck.
> 
> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:16:20 +0100, Paul wrote:
> 
>     You are running it as root, right?
> 
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:50:00 -0400, ron wrote:
> 
>    Yes, I'm running as root.
> 
>    Package management works ok.
> 
>    Permissions are:
> 
>    -rw------- 1 root root   25262 Jul  3 13:05 yum.log
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   30898 May  8 17:13 yum.log.1
> 
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:36:30 +0100, Paul wrote:
> 
>    Does it work if you change the permissions to 644?
> 
> Paul,
> 
> No.

OK, how about the parent directory permissions?

# ls -ldZ / /var /var/log

Paul.




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