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 in "userland", simply because this is the default level for programs. > - uucp.log, mail.* and news/* are 0644. I would say that these > should be 0640. I think these are 0640 with syslog-ng! ;) > - why is dmesg 0644? This is not really a problem, but do users > need access to the boot messages? May be because the information is available via syslog(2) too? (This might be false with selinux, no idea.) -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
