I keep getting this broadcast message

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Broadcast message from systemd-journald@CtrlAltReboot (Thu 2022-05-12 11:06:54 CEST):
sssd_kcm[7792]: Could not open file [/var/log/sssd/sssd_kcm.log]. Error: [2][No such file or directory]

What is this and how do I get rid of this?

Operating System: Fedora Linux 36
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.17.5-301.fsync.fc36.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

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You can see this from the package description:

$ rpm -qi sssd
Name        : sssd
Version     : 2.7.0
Release     : 1.fc36
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mon 25 Apr 2022 08:30:38 BST
Group       : Unspecified
Size        : 35147
License     : GPLv3+
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Thu 14 Apr 2022 20:27:09 BST, Key ID 999f7cbf38ab71f4
Source RPM  : sssd-2.7.0-1.fc36.src.rpm
Build Date  : Thu 14 Apr 2022 20:11:45 BST
Build Host  : buildhw-x86-14.iad2.fedoraproject.org
Packager    : Fedora Project
Vendor      : Fedora Project
URL         : https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/
Bug URL     : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/sssd
Summary     : System Security Services Daemon
Description :
Provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and
authentication mechanisms. It provides an NSS and PAM interface toward
the system and a pluggable back end system to connect to multiple different
account sources. It is also the basis to provide client auditing and policy
services for projects like FreeIPA.

The sssd subpackage is a meta-package that contains the daemon as well as all
the existing back ends.

Does the file exist? Can you check its permissions etc? This is what I get, for example:

$ sudo ls -lash /var/log/sssd/
total 12K
   0 drwxr-x---. 1 root root  114 May  1 00:01 .
   0 drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1.1K May  8 00:01 ..
4.0K -rw-------. 1 root root   90 May 12 09:48 sssd_kcm.log
4.0K -rw-------. 1 root root  175 Apr 27 09:21 sssd_kcm.log-20220426.gz
4.0K -rw-------. 1 root root  520 May 12 07:55 sssd_kcm.log-20220501

If the permissions are wrong, we can correct that. If the file doesn’t exist, I guess we can create it too and see if that helps.

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the file nor the directory exists. I created the dir and the file, lets see if it helps

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Great. :crossed_fingers:

Please do remember to check that the owner + permissions of the ones you’ve created match what I have on my system.

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Seems to have done the trick. I used chmod 600 and it is now fine. Thank you very much!!

4.0K drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root 4.0K May 12 12:35 …
4.0K -rw------- 1 root root 90 May 12 12:35 sssd_kcm.log

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