Re: SunOS newsyslog bug
jsz (jsz@ramon.bgu.ac.il)
Fri, 26 Aug 94 21:25:57 IDT
>
> I was surprise to see that in SunOS (4.1.3 and U1) the command
> /usr/lib/newsyslog do a 'chmod 666' on the $LOG (= syslog) file he just
> created.
> Thus, after running newsyslog, which is done in the crontab,
> the new log files is writable by everybody :-(
>
> Does this chmod has been corrected by Sun?
>
> jean.
>
The other real problem with /usr/lib/newsyslog is that it's being executed
by a crontab job as root, but it's owned by bin. 100103-12 patch doesn't
change its ownership.