From c4367da51e3ded38dff5b98c189a26a798d54123 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GONG Jie <gongjie@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:19:41 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Dirty hack, fix the permission of direcotry /var/log/xcat

---
 xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.ubuntu | 9 ++++++++-
 xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.xcat   | 9 +++++++--
 xCAT/postscripts/syslog                            | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.ubuntu b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.ubuntu
index 26d062e8b..2e6d77a55 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.ubuntu
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.ubuntu
@@ -153,6 +153,14 @@ return_value=0
 run_ps () {
  local ret_local=0
  mkdir -p "\"/var/log/xcat\""
+ # On Ubuntu, the rsyslogd daemon write log files with syslog:adm
+ # permissison. And in some case, the directory /var/log/xcat was
+ # created by xCAT, and had root:root ownership. In this way, rsyslogd
+ # did not have enough permission to write to log files under this
+ # directory.
+ # As a dirty hack, change the ownership of directory /var/log/xcat
+ # to the same ownership of directory /var/log.
+ chown `ls -ld /var/log | awk '{ print \$3\":\"\$4 }'` "\"/var/log/xcat\""
  local logfile=\"/var/log/xcat/xcat.log\"
 
  if [ -f \$1 ]; then 
@@ -300,4 +308,3 @@ cd /
 #rm -Rf /xcatpost
 #rm -f /tmp/mypostscript
 exit 0
-
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.xcat b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.xcat
index 0ad6ce8e6..abc36d1c8 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.xcat
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.xcat
@@ -138,6 +138,13 @@ return_value=0
 run_ps () {
  local ret_local=0
  mkdir -p "\"/var/log/xcat\""
+ # On some Linux distro, the rsyslogd daemon write log files with permision
+ # other than root:root. And in some case, the directory /var/log/xcat was
+ # created by xCAT, and had root:root ownership. In this way, rsyslogd
+ # did not have enough permission to write to log files under this directory.
+ # As a dirty hack, change the ownership of directory /var/log/xcat to the
+ # same ownership of directory /var/log.
+ chown `ls -ld /var/log | awk '{ print \$3\":\"\$4 }'` "\"/var/log/xcat\"" 
  local logfile=\"/var/log/xcat/xcat.log\"
 
  if [ -f \$1 ]; then 
@@ -274,5 +281,3 @@ updateflag.awk $MASTER 3002
 cd /
 #rm -Rf /xcatpost
 #rm -f /xcatpost/mypostscript
-
-
diff --git a/xCAT/postscripts/syslog b/xCAT/postscripts/syslog
index 1b0aa07b4..2403351e8 100755
--- a/xCAT/postscripts/syslog
+++ b/xCAT/postscripts/syslog
@@ -348,7 +348,8 @@ else
     #making sure all the messages goes to /var/log/messages
     touch  /var/log/messages 
     if ( pmatch $OSVER "ubuntu*" ) || ( is_lsb_ubuntu ) || ( pmatch $OSVER "debian*" ); then
-      chown syslog:adm /var/log/messages
+      chown --reference=/var/log /var/log/messages
+      chown --reference=/var/log /var/log/xcat
     fi
     if [ $ng -eq 0 ]; then
       if [ ! -f $conf_file.XCATORIG ]; then