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Re: slackware permissions


From: Jakub Jankowski <shasta () quasimodo olsztyn tpsa pl>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 18:59:51 +0200 (CEST)

On 2001-08-03, denis wrote:

[...]
$ ls -l /var/log/cron
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     root            0 Jul 22 21:50 /var/log/cron

this should be chmod 600
[...]

If it's 600, then how are user's cron jobs going to be run??

 /var/log/cron is only a *logfile*. 0600 mode wouldn't affect cron's
functionality at all.

 Jakub.


p.s. Please reply *under* cited text, not above. thanks.

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