I don't know what type of OS this is on Nix/Windows/Other but when MySQL creates a default slow queries log file for Ubuntu it places this in /var/log/mysql which is not accessible to anyone other than super user. By default this file is 640 so that owners and groups may access it. For example on Ubuntu if you part of the "adm" group you can read the file. I would steer away from global reading permissions on that log.
Going into the background on this why do you want to enable all users to read the file? If so I would recommend creating a group and adding users to the group for viewing permissions. The logs information could be used against you negatively if an attacker stumbles upon your file (somehow made available through your webserver) and knows how your database reads and writes the information passed to it. Internally no daemons such as the MySQL Daemon will bark about permissions to the file as they have access to the log by default. -----Original Message----- From: "Matt Juszczak" <m...@atopia.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 2:09pm To: talk@lists.nyphp.org Subject: [nyphp-talk] MySQL slow query log/general mysql log Hi folks, Has anyone ever seen any negative effects of changing the permissions of the MySQL slow query log (not changing umask or anything like that) once MySQL has created the file? I'd like to make it 755 to allow for global read only access. -Matt _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation Anthony Wlodarski Lead Software Engineer [http://www.dating2p0.com] Dating 2.0 646 285 0500 x217 anth...@dating2p0.com
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