Splunk Forwarder cant access "/var/log/messages"
Issue
Splunk log forwarder running under userID splunk cannot access /var/log/messages , throwing errors similar to :
05-05-2017 06:40:54.704 +0400 WARN TailingProcessor - Insufficient permissions to read file='/var/log/messages' (hint: Permission denied).
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Splunk agent (Splunk Forwarder) running as unprivileged user
splunk
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