Can't Write to Log, Root Keeps Re-Owning Them

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

I’m having trouble with logging in a fresh install of 13.5.0. I’m running Asterisk as non-root, but for some reason when the log files rotate, the log files (specifically messages and queue_log) show up as owned by root. Asterisk ceases writing to them.

I’ve tried

That fixes the problem temporarily, but it comes back after a day or so when the log rotates.

Is there something I should change to make sure these are permanently owned by the asterisk user?

2

Just to add to my confusion, if I manually rotate logs from the Asterisk command line, “logger rotate” the new logs are owned by Asterisk. But if the logs rotate automatically, the new logs are owned by root.

3

Your problem lies in the logrotate script (which will be run as root.)

4

That helps immensely. I changed the line:

to:

I’m optimistic this will solve the issue. Thank you!