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

Krash, Paul pkrash at exegy.com
Sat May 17 17:21:54 CEST 2008


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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