On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 03:25:19PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Monday 02 March 2009 07:03:53 am Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I'd like /var/log/messages to be readable by non-root users. syslogd.c > > uses device_open to open the file though and it has the permissions > > hardcoded to 0600. > > > > I can't really see why it uses device_open... nor a good solution. > > I propose this patch.
> reopen: > - G.logFD = device_open(G.logFilePath, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT > - | O_NOCTTY | O_APPEND | O_NONBLOCK); > + G.logFD = open(G.logFilePath, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT > + | O_NOCTTY | O_APPEND | O_NONBLOCK, > + 0666); 0666 is too generous I think - but it works ok. 0644 or 0664 would be better. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <ham...@debian.org> <ham...@cloud.net.au> _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
