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Tutorial on https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/ubuntu/ failed #3531

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tinoadams opened this issue Aug 23, 2020 · 2 comments · Fixed by #4081
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Tutorial on https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/ubuntu/ failed #3531

tinoadams opened this issue Aug 23, 2020 · 2 comments · Fixed by #4081
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domain: external docs Anything related to Vector's external, public documentation needs: docs Needs documentation updates platform: debian Anything `debian` platform related platform: rpm Anything `rpm` platform related platform: ubuntu Anything `ubuntu` platform related
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The tutorial on:

https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/ubuntu/

Here's what went wrong:

sudo dpkg -i vector-amd64.deb installs a new systemd unit which executes /usr/bin/vector as user vector. By default that user has no read access to journald in order to read logs like in the installation example. It also cannot access /var/log/syslog and other logs for the same reason.

$ cat <<-VECTORCFG > /etc/vector/vector.toml
[sources.in]
  type = "journald" # required
...

$ cat /etc/systemd/system/vector.service
[Service]   
User=vector 
Group=vector

$ sudo journalctl -u vector
Aug 23 11:02:13 test-xenial-1 vector[9207]: No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
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@tinoadams Thanks! We'll take a look at updating the tutorial. Just to confirm so you can make progress - you need to add the vector user to the systemd-journal group:

usermod -aG systemd-journal vector

Let us know if you spot any other issues!

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@binarylogic There's a couple of options here.

  1. Add
usermod -aG systemd-journal vector

To the Debian/Ubuntu/RPM/other places package installation scripts, c.f. https://github.com/timberio/vector/blob/master/distribution/debian/scripts/preinst.

  1. Add a step to the docs telling folks to do this to set permissions. Given the automated build - we'd probably have an interface_permissions or interface_setup or something set of templates?

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chore: Add vector to systemd-journal on Debian and RPM vectordotdev/vector
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