FreeBSD 4.7 Syslogs

[Sunil Sunder Raj]

Hi,
I did not mean to change the permissions to 777 permanently. Just to come to 
a conclusion on whether it is a permission problem. As 90% unix problems are 
related to permissions.

Regards
SSR


>From: "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste at smxy.org>
>Reply-To: ste at smxy.org
>To: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org
>Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.7 Syslogs
>Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:47:01 -0400
>
>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
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