Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.12.1713 +0100]: > also sprach Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.12.1708 +0100]: > > My mail.* files are 640 and I don't remember having done anything > > special for that to happen. > > Judging from an IRC conversation, I should not

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.12.1708 +0100]: > My mail.* files are 640 and I don't remember having done anything > special for that to happen. Judging from an IRC conversation, I should note that I just did a fresh install into VMware from the 2004-11-27 netinst ISO. The

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.12.1706 +0100]: > I think this is "user" as in "userland", simply because this is the > default level for programs. ah, okay. also sprach Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.12.1706 +0100]: > The log buffer can normally be read using th

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > I am trying to make sense of /var/log/*. I noticed the following > peculiarities: > > - user.log is 0640. However, aren't "user" messages possibly > relevant to users? If so, I suggest making the file 0644. 640 is not necessarily broken. There

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 04:54:14PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > - why is dmesg 0644? This is not really a problem, but do users > need access to the boot messages? The log buffer can normally be read using the dmesg utility (or similar code) as well as via the log file. -- "You grabbed

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread Loïc Minier
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sun, Dec 12, 2004: > I am trying to make sense of /var/log/*. I noticed the following > peculiarities: > - user.log is 0640. However, aren't "user" messages possibly > relevant to users? If so, I suggest making the file 0644. I think this is "user" as

strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread martin f krafft
I am trying to make sense of /var/log/*. I noticed the following peculiarities: - user.log is 0640. However, aren't "user" messages possibly relevant to users? If so, I suggest making the file 0644. - uucp.log, mail.* and news/* are 0644. I would say that these should be 0640. - wh