From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 19 5:56: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [208.11.142.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCFF37B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 05:55:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA08427 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:55:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@federation.addy.com) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:55:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Sander Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quickie In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000918203334.0f70e7d0@mail.mikesweb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You can also create the log files in their own directory (in which normal users don't have write permission) and create symlinks in ~user pointing to that log directory. Depending upon the exact needs this method protects the system and is a lot easier than managing a whole system of userids. Again, running non-root is good. You can create a UID for nothing but this task in fact. -=Jim=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message