Permissions on /var/log/ files

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr at redhat.com> said:
> I'm trying to help Suvayu understand what he's getting confused over.
> Conflicts between logrotate and manual changes are certainly more likely
> than "something bad happened to syslog".

There are only a few logrotate.d config files that set permissions and
ownership, and they are mostly logs you aren't liable to be changing.
The normal syslog-written files, such as /var/log/messages, don't have
overrides and won't be a problem.

-- 
Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>