[Gllug] Default messages perm

Casper Gasper casper.gasper at gmail.com
Wed May 31 19:12:04 UTC 2006


On 31/05/06, Yashpal Nagar <yash at linux-delhi.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone there,
> A very quick one, we do have a program which analyses the messages
> (messages, secure etc in /var/log)  from a linux box, how do i change
> the default permissions for let say messages to 644?
> Rgds,
> Yash


 Depends on your system.  If it's being created by logrotate, look at
logrotate.conf and replace the line:

create

 with

create 0644 root utmp

or something similar.

see man logrotate  for details.


Casper.
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