Re: /var/log on Debian systems

To: Debian Development <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: /var/log on Debian systems
From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:55:59 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 20041214185559.GB16519@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20041214001854.GA20108@cirrus.madduck.net>
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martin f krafft wrote:
> On all my Debian systems, /var/log seems like a big pile of dumps
> without much consistency. Especially, while 0640:root:adm seems to
> be a commonly accepted guideline, proggies like aptitude,
> scrollkeeper, X, xdm, fontconfig, and many others basically just
> dump their files world-readable into there.

What's so private in these log files that they should not world
readable?

Regards,

	Joey

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