[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] /var/log/dmesg should be mode 644

[Jonathan Nieder]

reassign 570358 initscripts 2.87dsf-8.1
thanks

積丹尼 wrote:
> What point is making /var/log/dmesg unreadable to the user when he can
> see all its contents and even more via dmesg(1)?
> # dmesg | wc -l - /var/log/dmesg
>     616 -
>     604 /var/log/dmesg
>    1220 total

Makes sense.  That file is created by the initscripts postinst.  I
would suggest changing the permissions to 644 for new installations
but not bothering to change it for existing systems.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan