also sprach smills:
> it depends on your unix vendor, for instance redhat linux 6.2 by default
> gives 600 as default permissions for maillog/messages files

As does 6.1. Regardless of vendor and content, however, your log files
should *never* be world-readable. They should preferably be 600, owned by
root, unless you have *good* reason otherwise.

/pg
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