[hobbit] /var/log/messages permission denied Centos 4 and 5

[Josh Luthman]

For the record...on all of my CentOS 5 and 5.1 boxes it stuck with the
modified group.

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Krash, Paul <pkrash at exegy.com> wrote:

> Mr. Luthman wrote:
>
>  > Can you give us all some details on how do to that?
>
> Sure!
> Here is the default script from Centos5.1 with the chmod command:
>
>        #/etc/cron.daily/logrotate
>        #!/bin/sh
>        /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
>        EXITVALUE=$?
>        if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
>            /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with
> [$EXITVALUE]"
>        fi
>        /bin/chmod 755 /var/log/messages
>        exit 0
>
> Notice that this makes /var/log/messages world readable. :-O
>
> But I digress. :-)
>
> Best,
>
> PKrash, temporarily working off a Winserver, sorry for any Outlook
> mangling.
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