From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 16 06:47:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053A316A4CE for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 06:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from peter.smxy.org (smxy.org [64.32.179.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860AD43D48 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 06:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ste@smxy.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peter.smxy.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55AE220F for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 09:47:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smxy.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (peter.smxy.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id 68433-02 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 09:47:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smxy.org (pcp09422820pcs.plnfld01.nj.comcast.net [69.141.210.35]) by peter.smxy.org (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 09:47:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40A770D5.6000409@smxy.org> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:47:01 -0400 From: "Shaun T. Erickson" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 at smxy.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.7 Syslogs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ste@smxy.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 13:47:07 -0000 Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: > > Just give 777 permissions to /var/log/messages This is BAD advice, and you should NOT follow it. If you do, you will give anyone the ability to modify or delete your log entries, which yoou do NOT want. Find and fix the actual problem; don't bypass the symptom with something that reduces system security. -ste