Re: /var/log/messages not world-readable anymore?

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Joey Hess writes:
> I've got sysklogd 1.3-17 and it's made /var/log/messages no longer be world
> readable. Is there some security problem with letting any user read it?

I don't like the idear of publically readable logfiles.  If you
like them, please edit /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd.

Regards

	Joey

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