Scribe scribe 3.x_y - syslog-ng and logrotate installer

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

@Martinski's always on top of things — more things than you realize!

oh no, i realize quite a lot of @Martinski exploits. He is a Legendary! Especially in these tough coding times!

 

[Davidncali001]

in my logs I see this popping up a couple times a day. I tried looking it up to see if I can fix it but came up with nothing.

Can anyone explain what this log means and how to resolve the problem?

logrotate: warning: state file/var/lib/logrotate.status is world-readable and thus can be locked from other unprivileged users. Skipping lock acquisition...

 

[visortgw]

in my logs I see this popping up a couple times a day. I tried looking it up to see if I can fix it but came up with nothing.

Can anyone explain what this log means and how to resolve the problem?

logrotate: warning: state file/var/lib/logrotate.status is world-readable and thus can be locked from other unprivileged users. Skipping lock acquisition...

Permissions on the lock file are wrong -- too wide open.

 

[Davidncali001]

Permissions on the lock file are wrong -- too wide open.

How do I fix it?

 

[visortgw]

How do I fix it?

chmod o-w <filename>

 

[Ripshod]

Permissions on the lock file are wrong -- too wide open.

Is it not a concern that, even on initial install, this file has the wrong permissions by default? I've had to fix the permissions on mine too, so it's not an individual event.

 

[bibikalka]

Had a strange issue. Scribe latest just stopped working on one of the days, while I was away. Then it just would not start - I tried manually several times. I had to re-install it, and it works now. Not the first time this happened to me.

Nothing in the log - but the issue occurred on Dec 24 08:09, since after that the filters stopped supressing kernel error messages. Anything else I should check?

Dec 24 04:07:46 Diversion: started separate Dnsmasq instance for ad-blocking exclusion on IP 192.168.1.16
Dec 24 04:07:46 Diversion: restarted Dnsmasq to apply settings
Dec 24 04:09:00 kernel: klogd: exiting
Dec 24 04:09:00 syslogd exiting
Dec 24 08:09:00 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.25.1
Dec 24 08:09:00 kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.25.1 (2024-11-17 14:18:51 EST)

 

[sman]

About 4 months ago, I submitted a pull request to the Scribe GitHub repository that includes a fix to address the installation problem. You can download & install the latest modified version 3.2.1 with the following commands:

curl -LSs --retry 4 --retry-delay 5 --retry-connrefused \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cynicastic/scribe/313238bcb3b0c40d7f6da6c46119a4070c171fd9/scribe \
-o /jffs/scripts/scribe.sh && chmod a+x /jffs/scripts/scribe.sh
rm -f /opt/bin/scribe
/jffs/scripts/scribe.sh install && mv -f /jffs/scripts/scribe.sh /jffs/scripts/scribe

If you choose to install uiScribe as well, you will need to install the develop branch 1.4.6 version on top of the master branch 1.4.5 version:

/jffs/scripts/uiScribe develop

HTH.

one month ago works, but now it give an error: "scribe GitHub repository is unavailable! -- Aborting."

 

[Martinski]

FYI,
@cmkelley has approved & merged my pending PRs into his 'master' branch repo, so a new production release has become available now.

Release Notes for Scribe v3.2.1 version
[2025-Jun-08]

1) Add 'hostapd' filter (by @cmkelley)

2) Made changes to allow installation on 3006.102.x F/W builds.

3) Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause all lines in the configuration file to be replaced by the new version string.

4) Fixed a bug that would generate the error message: "sed: bad option in substitution expression"

5) Made changes to be able to parse version strings correctly using the 2-part or 3-part versioning scheme (e.g., Major.Minor.Patch).

NOTES:
If you choose to install uiScribe, you will need to get the 'develop' branch 1.4.6 version on top of the master branch 1.4.5 version:

/jffs/scripts/uiScribe develop

In the near future, the AMTM-OSR team plans to migrate both Scribe and uiScribe to their new "home" in their respective AMTM-OSR GitHub repos. Until the formal announcement is made, please continue to update from their original repositories.

 

[ColDen]

FYI,
@cmkelley has approved & merged my pending PRs into his 'master' branch repo, so a new production release has become available now.

Release Notes for Scribe v3.2.1 version
[2025-Jun-08]

1) Add 'hostapd' filter (by @cmkelley)

2) Made changes to allow installation on 3006.102.x F/W builds.

3) Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause all lines in the configuration file to be replaced by the new version string.

4) Fixed a bug that would generate the error message: "sed: bad option in substitution expression"

5) Made changes to be able to parse version strings correctly using the 2-part or 3-part versioning scheme (e.g., Major.Minor.Patch).

NOTES:
If you choose to install uiScribe, you will need to get the 'develop' branch 1.4.6 version on top of the master branch 1.4.5 version:

/jffs/scripts/uiScribe develop

In the near future, the AMTM-OSR team plans to migrate both Scribe and uiScribe to their new "home" in their respective AMTM-OSR GitHub repos. Until the formal announcement is made, please continue to update from their original repositories.

Thanks @Martinski for your great work maintaining and taking over from @cmkelly. Looking forward for the same for uiScribe.