On Tue 1. August 2006 12:18, martin f krafft wrote: > > Most important logs (messages, dmesg) are chmod 0640 and > > group-owned by group adm. Why /var/log/hibernate.log cannot > > have the same rights and ownership? > > It can, but why should it?
For the same reason, why we have adm group in the first place -- so that privileged regular user (who is in group adm) can read logs. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property. -- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Government"
