Re: /dev/log
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 12:01 pm, michael wrote:
> I saw the following in my 'tiger' output
> --FAIL-- [dev002f] /dev/log has world permissions
>
> which is indeed true:
>
> $ file /dev/log
> /dev/log: socket
> $ ls -lt /dev/log
> srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2005-06-28 13:28 /dev/log
>
> but I cannot find a manual page etc that tells me what this socket is
> for or whether the permissions are correct
>
It's used by syslogd. Not 100% sure on this, but I believe it's how user-space
apps send messages to syslog (e.g. with syslog(3)). If that's the case, it
would need to be mode 666 for syslog(3) to work.
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