My machine is a fresh install of Karmic Alpha 3 on the bare metal - no upgrades. So the permissions are created by the current package system and/or logrotate.
2009/8/31 Michael Terry <michael.te...@canonical.com>: > OK, I see the difference. My /var/log is the same as yours, but my > /var/log/syslog is syslog:adm. If I chown it to root:adm, I get the > same behavior as you... Now to see why/when it is root:adm (and if it > should be). I suspect my syslog:adm is because rsyslog created it for > me at some point. But yours may have been from sysklogd days? > > -- > [karmic] Messages not being sent to system logs > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407862 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Neil Wilson -- [karmic] Messages not being sent to system logs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs