> > 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.
> >
AFAIK only /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd touches /var/log/messages.
check that this file contains this line (or something similar):
savelog -g adm -m 640 -u root -c 4 $LOG >/dev/null
^^^^^
also:
man syslogd-listfiles && man savelog
Iwan.
