[Gllug] Permissions on /var/log/messages

[Neil Fryer]

Hi All,

I am running Mandrake 9.0 if that helps at all?
And yeah, whenever the messages file gets updated the permissions change,
but there is no root crontab running at all?


Regards
Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Tethys [mailto:tet at accucard.com]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 1:17 PM
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Permissions on /var/log/messages 



Neil Fryer writes:

>I need to change the default permissions on /var/log/messages, and I did
the
>usual chmod, etc, but then it seems this only lasts for a few minutes, so
>how can I set it so that the default permissions are readable by a user
>other than root?

A simple chgrp and chmod worked fine for me under Red Hat. Which
distribution are you using? What's changing the permissions back on
your system? Is it when syslog writes anything new to the file? Is it
some process that checks ownership and permissions and changes them if
they're not what it expects?

Tet


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