Dig around for things with names like cron.daily and cron.monthly in /etc.
If you look at the scripts, you will see things such as umask settings and paramaters passed to the savelog command that look like -m 644. These are the permissions. Edit them (but save the original line commented out or save the original files in case you need to back out your changes). On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, System Account wrote: > Hello all. > > How can i set my logs (/var/log/) so they are not world readable? > I have tried chmod o-r messages (and others including ppp.log and > daemon.log) but after a reboot or when cron.daily runs some are agian > world readable. Is there anything that this would affect, other than the > general use of the last cmd for users? Also, are there any logs that need > to be readable by others? > > TIA > -Rob > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
