zabbix active log file permission problem

[conehead]

Hi,
I work mostly on windows but i have a zabbix server for monitoring which works great. Recently i created a debian server and installed rsyslog on it to monitor some switches which is working as expected. But have a problem reading the logs from zabbix using the zabbix agent active. I am sure it is a permission problem but i am not sure how to resolve it. I allso tried reading the zabbix log files for which the user zabbix has the permissions and that is working.

when i run the following command:
sudo ls -all /var/log/remotelogs/

i get to see the following permissions (for now i just want to test the 10.0.10.179.log for which syslog user and group is the owner.

drwx------ 2 syslog syslog 4096 Mar 5 11:14 .
drwxrwxr-x 10 root syslog 4096 Mar 5 11:49 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 syslog syslog 27304 Mar 5 12:09 10.0.10.179.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 syslog syslog 1850429 Mar 5 12:17 127.0.0.1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 Mar 5 11:14 test.log

When i try to add that log to monitor in zabbix i allways get a permission denied which is logic because the user zabbix has no permission on that file. So i added the user zabbix to the syslog group by running

usermod -a -G syslog zabbix

But that is still not working

when i run groups zabbix i get the following

zabbix : zabbix adm syslog

I allso tried running the agent as root following this procedure but problem remains

9 Running agent as root (zabbix.com)

My question: how to set the right permissions in order for zabbix to read the log files?

thanks in advance

[cyber]

Your file already has read permissions for all (3x r there). As you list files via sudo, you probably lack some permissions on the directory, where those logfiles are. That "remotelogs" directory.
Show us out put of "namei -mo /var/log/remotelogs/", if possible

[conehead]

Hi, the result gave me the following

:

Now i did an sudo chmod g+wrx /var/log/remotelogs
result

But it is still not working and if i understand correctly syslog as a group should have all the rights on that folder

the rights on the folder above

[conehead]

i restarted the zabbix agent and the results are coming in know

thanks for the help, i think just the read rights would be sufficient

[cyber]

To enter a directory and read files from it you need both r and x. so g+rx should have been enough.