permissions on /var/log/messages

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Monday 02 March 2009 07:03:53 am Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I'd like /var/log/messages to be readable by non-root users. syslogd.c
> uses device_open to open the file though and it has the permissions
> hardcoded to 0600.
> 
> I can't really see why it uses device_open... nor a good solution.

I propose this patch.
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