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

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jul 5 08:00:37 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 03:25 -0400, 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?
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 07:37:52 -0400, ron wrote:
> 
>     No.
> 
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:01:51 +0100, Paul wrote:
> 
> OK, how about the parent directory permissions?
> 
> # ls -ldZ / /var /var/log
> 
> Paul,
> 
> the parent directory permissions are:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  root root system_u:object_r:root_t         /
> drwxr-xr-x  root root system_u:object_r:var_t          /var
> drwxr-xr-x  root root system_u:object_r:var_log_t      /var/log

Well that all looks reasonable so I'd try reporting this as a bug
upstream.

Or perhaps any other kyum users here could say whether the facility to
view the latest uploads and removals works for them?

Paul.




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