nixos/promtail: Allow write access to positions file if not in CacheDirectory

Because of `ProtectSystem=strict`, Promtail cannot write to the positions
file if it's not in its `CacheDirectory` (the default value).

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/logging/promtail.nix b/nixos/modules/services/logging/promtail.nix
index 34211687dc1d..95c83796ece6 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/logging/promtail.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/logging/promtail.nix
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ let
   '';
 
   allowSystemdJournal = cfg.configuration ? scrape_configs && lib.any (v: v ? journal) cfg.configuration.scrape_configs;
+
+  allowPositionsFile = !lib.hasPrefix "/var/cache/promtail" positionsFile;
+  positionsFile = cfg.configuration.positions.filename;
 in {
   options.services.promtail = with types; {
     enable = mkEnableOption "the Promtail ingresser";
@@ -53,6 +56,7 @@ in {
         RestrictSUIDSGID = true;
         PrivateMounts = true;
         CacheDirectory = "promtail";
+        ReadWritePaths = lib.optional allowPositionsFile (builtins.dirOf positionsFile);
 
         User = "promtail";
         Group = "promtail";