On Tuesday 05 July 2005 12:01 pm, michael wrote: > I saw the following in my 'tiger' output > --FAIL-- [dev002f] /dev/log has world permissions > > which is indeed true: > > $ file /dev/log > /dev/log: socket > $ ls -lt /dev/log > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2005-06-28 13:28 /dev/log > > but I cannot find a manual page etc that tells me what this socket is > for or whether the permissions are correct > It's used by syslogd. Not 100% sure on this, but I believe it's how user-space apps send messages to syslog (e.g. with syslog(3)). If that's the case, it would need to be mode 666 for syslog(3) to work.
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