Permissions on /var/log/ files

Timothy Murphy gayleard at alice.it
Wed Jul 17 13:59:35 UTC 2013


I'm tired of saying "sudo less /var/log/maillog" or "messages".
Is there any non-paranoiac reason for not making /var/log/ files
readable say by wheel?


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Timothy Murphy  
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