On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:41:44PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Files created by root inside /var/log would be root.adm by default, not > > root.root by default. > > I agree, that would be quite useful. Most of the files in there are already > set up that way, but some aren't, and that makes people chgrp manually to > enable the adm group to read logs. > > There are a few exceptions to this practice, exim for example uses mail.mail > for ownership of its log files, but mode 640... is this a bug?
Er, yes and no. It's definitely not a bug that it's not owned by root, as it needs to write to them as non-root. They probably should be group adm, though.
