Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Is this really a bug, or just a bad/pointless idea? I mean, it asked me > if I should lock these tools down, and I said yes. I can always loosen > up permissions on a case by case basis. Unless bastille closes down access to programs like perl, python, gcc, the shell,

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-15, Colin Watson penned: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:20:26PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On 2004-02-15, Joey Hess penned: >> > That would be a violation of debian policy, and is not the case on >> > any of my systems. >> > >> > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 33K Oct 9 2

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 11:16, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Hi all! I've looked in the logrotate man page, /usr/share/doc/logrotate > (not much there), and google, and I can't seem to find the answer to > these questions: > > 1) I'd like to have the option of never deleting the backups for certain >

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:20:26PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-15, Joey Hess penned: > > That would be a violation of debian policy, and is not the case on any > > of my systems. > > > > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 33K Oct 9 2002 > > /usr/sbin/logrotate* > > Well, Bas

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-15, Joey Hess penned: > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> 3) Permissions. The logrotate app is only executable by root on my >> box. I'm trying to imagine the situation in which giving a normal >> user access to logrotate would hurt anything, as long as logs have >> appropriate permissions

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > 3) Permissions. The logrotate app is only executable by root on my box. > I'm trying to imagine the situation in which giving a normal user access > to logrotate would hurt anything, as long as logs have appropriate > permissions. Could the paranoid among us speak up an