Plugin copies the file to /var/cache folder and does its checking

[jsiddharth]

To get this working, I had to add sensu user to the adm group so that I can address /var/log/auth.log. But for some reason I started to get Permission Denied for /var/cache/check-log/.../var/log/auth.log. I had to give chmod 777 access (without -R) to /var/cache/check-log/.../var/log/auth.log to get it to work. Ideally adding sensu user to root group should have done the trick.

Please help me solve this issue without having to do chmod on /var/cache/check-log/.../var/log/auth.log.

[mf69]

I fixed this by changing check-log.rb line 36
BASE_DIR = '/var/cache/sensu/check-log'.freeze

This works (on ubuntu) because /var/cache/sensu is created by the sensu package install with r/w/x permissions for the sensu user, which is what the sensu-client daemon runs as.

[majormoses]

We need to remove the constant and make this an option that the user can control. I have commented this on the PR.