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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@sunyit.edu>
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Subject: Re: log access files?
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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> What would be a good way to keep the files:
> /var/log/messages*.*
> 
> readable only by certain users? just incase someone types thier password
> at the login prompt i don't want those files public...

man newsyslog(8) and vi /etc/newsyslog.conf

Danny