On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > I am trying to make sense of /var/log/*. I noticed the following > peculiarities: > > - user.log is 0640. However, aren't "user" messages possibly > relevant to users? If so, I suggest making the file 0644.
640 is not necessarily broken. There might be inter-user privacy issues. > - uucp.log, mail.* and news/* are 0644. I would say that these > should be 0640. My mail.* files are 640 and I don't remember having done anything special for that to happen. > - why is dmesg 0644? This is not really a problem, but do users > need access to the boot messages? Since any user can run the dmesg command, it would not add any extra privacy to such information.
