* Why does svlogd make rotated log files executable
@ 2007-11-17 11:59 Sam Morris
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From: Sam Morris @ 2007-11-17 11:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I was wondering why it is that rotated log files become executable.
According to svlogd(8), this is deliberate ("svlogd closes current,
changes permission of current to 0755, renames current to @timestamp.s,
and starts with a new empty current") but the reason why this is done is
not documented.
It just seems like an odd thing to do, since rotated log files do not
contain executable content...
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