intentional. if you do a ls -ltm, you will see [none] would have updated smtp*, runq etc... upas/*, others run as none, and well...
is it a shortcoming compared to unix world? these logs are not sacrosanct. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Jeff Sickel <j...@corpus-callosum.com> wrote: > I've just built out a new Plan 9 cpu/auth server and noticed that others are > able to write to the logs. Is this intentional or just an oversight? > > > cpu% ls -l /sys/log > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 Aug 3 2007 /sys/log/6in4 > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 Apr 26 2002 /sys/log/aan > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 9644 Mar 15 19:45 /sys/log/auth > a-rw-rw-r-- M 2936 bootes bootes 219734 Mar 15 20:30 /sys/log/cron > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/cs > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 1273328 Mar 15 20:37 /sys/log/dns > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 Sep 12 2007 /sys/log/fossil > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 1145 Mar 7 14:55 /sys/log/ftp > d-rwxrwxr-x M 2936 sys sys 0 Feb 28 13:32 /sys/log/httpd > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/imap4d > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/ipboot > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 Jul 31 2007 /sys/log/ipconfig > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 29713 Mar 13 01:46 /sys/log/listen > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 914 Sep 12 2007 /sys/log/mail > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/nfs > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/nfsserver > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/pop3 > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/portmapper > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/ppp > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/pptpd > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 182 Mar 24 2004 /sys/log/runq > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 Jan 5 2005 /sys/log/secstore > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 69 Mar 24 2004 /sys/log/smtp > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/smtp.fail > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 1032 Mar 13 06:56 /sys/log/smtpd > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 Oct 29 2004 /sys/log/smtpd.mx > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 4965 Mar 14 10:24 /sys/log/ssh > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 May 21 2000 /sys/log/telnet > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 1764 Mar 8 12:57 /sys/log/timesync > d-rwxrwxr-x M 2936 sys sys 0 Feb 28 13:32 /sys/log/timesync.d > a-rw-rw-rw- M 2936 sys sys 0 Jul 31 2007 /sys/log/v6routeradv > > > >