Hello all, This is my 2nd and last attempt to get some feedback on this problem. I have received no replies to my first query.
Basically I'm trying to find out, from someone who knows Debian's structure better than I, whether there is a mechanism in Debian that changes permissions on files *automagically* to ensure system security. I have not been able to locate this, and so cannot customize/fix this behaviour. In short then, here is my question: Does Debian Potato change permissions automatically?? Thanks for all help rendered! R. On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:24:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > This is a real mystery for me, and I need an answer to this problem: > > As a regular user (not root) I want to be able to do a 'tail -f > /var/log/messages' whenever I dialup my ISP. This is all set up fine > but there is a recurring permissions problem: every time I reboot, > *something* changes the group permissions of /var/log/messages > FROM: > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 225523 May 18 13:15 /var/log/messages > ^^^ > BACK TO: > -rw-r----- 1 root root 225523 May 18 13:15 /var/log/messages > ^^^^ > I chgrp back to adm, and something changes it back to root, etc. > > I have looked through /etc/cron.daily and found nothing. I have looked > through /etc/init.d shell scripts. I have tried tracking the > permissions change through syslogd logging - all unsuccessful. I cannot > seem to locate what mechanism is automatically changing this files > permissions. > > Debian gurus - help? > > R.
