FTL offline, only just noticed it by looking at the dashboard

[Florisjan]

Hi there!

Read all kinds of posts here, tried all kinds / looked at a lot of files, tried following instructions, rebooted several times.

Here's my token: att6gv3xgq

Thanks

Fj

[Mcat12]

[2017-08-09 07:45:53.445] WARN:  Opening of /var/log/pihole.log failed!
[2017-08-09 07:45:53.445]        Make sure it exists and is readable by user pihole
       Will try again in 15 seconds.
[2017-08-09 07:46:08.456] FATAL: Opening of /var/log/pihole.log failed permanently!

[Florisjan]

It looks like that is indeed not the case:

:~ $ ls /var/log/pi* -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root pihole 46953 Aug 9 08:02 /var/log/pihole_debug.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 0 Aug 10 00:00 /var/log/pihole-FTL.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 1108 Aug 10 00:00 /var/log/pihole-FTL.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 249 Aug 9 07:37 /var/log/pihole-FTL.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 140 Aug 6 00:00 /var/log/pihole-FTL.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 dnsmasq root 20085545 Aug 10 14:12 /var/log/pihole.log
-rw-r----- 1 dnsmasq root 27488762 Aug 10 00:00 /var/log/pihole.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 dnsmasq root 245 Aug 9 07:42 /var/log/pihole.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 dnsmasq root 5881 Aug 9 07:42 /var/log/pihole.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 dnsmasq root 275 Aug 9 07:40 /var/log/pihole.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 dnsmasq root 5017 Aug 9 07:40 /var/log/pihole.log.5.gz

:~ $ sudo chown pihole:pihole /var/log/pi*

gave me a working system and this after reboot:

:/var/log $ ls pi* -l

-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 46953 Aug 9 08:02 pihole_debug.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 3319 Aug 10 14:16 pihole-FTL.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 1108 Aug 10 00:00 pihole-FTL.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 249 Aug 9 07:37 pihole-FTL.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 140 Aug 6 00:00 pihole-FTL.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 dnsmasq pihole 20217932 Aug 10 14:16 pihole.log

Thank you!

[Mcat12]

-rw-r----- 1 dnsmasq pihole 20217932 Aug 10 14:16 pihole.log

The ownership should be dnsmasq:root

sudo chmod 644 /var/log/pihole.log
sudo chown dnsmasq:root /var/log/pihole.log

I'm not sure if the dnsmasq:pihole ownership will survive if dnsmasq rebuilds the log file (after deletion, etc)

[Florisjan]

Yes that makes sense, thanks.