Hello,

A few weeks ago, I believe shortly after the pcp package was updated in Fedora 38, the pmie_daily service would show as failed in cockpit.  I did some checking and found that at least one of the files was owned by root instead of pcp like below for the file pmie.log.20230604:

-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  108 Jun  4 19:33 pmie.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  192 May 23 00:08 pmie.log.20230522.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  172 May 24 00:08 pmie.log.20230523.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  276 May 25 08:36 pmie.log.20230524.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  208 May 25 08:41 pmie.log.20230525.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  224 May 26 08:37 pmie.log.20230526.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  212 May 28 00:08 pmie.log.20230527.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  256 May 29 09:13 pmie.log.20230528.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  204 May 30 00:08 pmie.log.20230529.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  196 May 31 00:08 pmie.log.20230530.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  200 Jun  1 00:08 pmie.log.20230531.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  260 Jun  2 09:02 pmie.log.20230601.xz
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  155 Jun  3 00:08 pmie.log.20230602
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  358 Jun  4 19:26 pmie.log.20230603
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 193 Jun  4 19:33 pmie.log.20230604
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcp  pcp  137 May 22 08:28 pmie.log.prior

If I change the ownership back to pcp and restart the service, everything works fine.  Does anyone know what might be causing this and what can be done to keep this from reoccurring?

Thanks!


Tom