I have yet another frustrating problem. I have a group of users belonging to the "testing" group. I have a folder located at /var/log/projects with the setgid bit set. This is so any new files or folders that get created in /projects will always retain the group ownership of "testing".
[root@system log]# ll | grep projects
drwxr-s---. 4 root testing 4096 Jun 10 19:36 projects
When I touch a file or create a folder in that directory they inherit the correct perms and ownership.
[root@system log]# touch /var/log/projects/testfile
[root@system log]# ll /var/log/projects/
total 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 root testing 0 Jun 10 19:49 testfile
And when I create a new folder its works as expected.
[root@system projects]# mkdir folder1
[root@system projects]# ll
total 8
drwxr-sr-x. 2 root testing 4096 Jun 10 19:52 folder1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root testing 0 Jun 10 19:49 testfile
So far so good. However I am using this folder for remote syslogs from other systems. When I start the rsyslogd service, any folders of files created by that process inherit the ownership of root:root.
drwx--S---. 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 19:44 remotehost
I was under the impression that the purpose of the setgid bit was for my use case. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or how I can fix this so that any folders/files created by the rsyslogd process have the group ownership of "testing"? This is on a RHEL 6 server.