Hi all What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log? Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed unexpectedly / unintendedly?
I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed some permissions with my logrotate.conf. This is what I have currently: # ls -lR /var/log /var/log: total 3376 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 4 12:07 apache -rw-r----- 1 root adm 218944 Jul 9 17:55 auth.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450626 Jul 9 17:31 daemon.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183661 Jul 5 00:07 debug -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3604 Jul 9 11:31 dmesg drwxr-xr-x 2 mail mail 1024 Jul 7 08:20 exim -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24192 Jul 9 17:55 faillog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 578067 Jul 9 11:32 kern.log drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 Jul 9 11:32 ksymoops -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 294336 Jul 9 17:55 lastlog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 3 17:46 lpr.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 3 17:46 mail.err -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10994 Jun 10 12:38 mail.info -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10994 Jun 10 12:38 mail.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 3 17:46 mail.warn -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 181920 Jul 9 17:51 messages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99798 Jul 4 08:08 messages.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27027 Jul 9 11:37 nmb -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 3 19:45 ppp-connect-errors -rw-r----- 1 root adm 4786 Jul 7 08:21 setuid.changes -rw-r----- 1 root adm 4786 Jul 6 08:21 setuid.changes.0 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 703 Jul 5 08:21 setuid.changes.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 702 Jul 4 08:21 setuid.changes.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 705 Jun 30 08:21 setuid.changes.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 22428 Jun 29 19:21 setuid.changes.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 37 Jun 29 19:21 setuid.changes.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 root root 372715 Jul 7 08:21 setuid.today -rw-r----- 1 root root 372715 Jul 6 08:21 setuid.yesterday -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105913 Jul 9 12:46 smb -rw-r----- 1 root adm 111830 Jul 9 17:44 syslog -rw-r----- 1 root adm 41605 Jul 7 08:20 syslog.0 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 6434 Jul 6 08:20 syslog.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 11561 Jul 5 08:20 syslog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 75 Jul 4 08:21 syslog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 5394 Jun 30 08:20 syslog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 22469 Jul 4 08:21 syslog.5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Jul 3 20:28 user.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 3 17:46 uucp.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 467328 Jul 9 17:55 wtmp -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 60426 Jul 4 07:33 wtmp.1.gz /var/log/apache: total 320 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 291873 Jul 9 15:43 access.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29995 Jul 9 11:32 error.log /var/log/exim: total 299 -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 168534 Jul 9 17:07 mainlog -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 81212 Jul 7 08:20 mainlog.0 -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 9446 Jul 6 08:20 mainlog.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 11360 Jul 5 08:20 mainlog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 17933 Jul 4 07:30 mainlog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 185 Jul 4 08:20 mainlog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 0 Jul 7 08:20 paniclog -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 0 Jul 6 08:20 paniclog.0 -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 31 Jul 5 08:20 paniclog.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 269 Jul 4 19:25 paniclog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 31 Jun 30 08:20 paniclog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 31 Jun 29 19:20 paniclog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 218 Jun 10 14:10 paniclog.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 0 Jul 7 08:20 rejectlog -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 0 Jul 6 08:20 rejectlog.0 -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 32 Jul 5 08:20 rejectlog.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 32 Jul 4 08:20 rejectlog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 32 Jun 30 08:20 rejectlog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 32 Jun 29 19:20 rejectlog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 366 Jun 11 18:31 rejectlog.5.gz /var/log/ksymoops: total 3898 [snipped] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39986 Jul 9 13:31 20000709133147.ksyms -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 718 Jul 9 13:31 20000709133147.modules Sorry for this being so long. Thank you Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2