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From: Roman Scherer <roman.scherer@burningswell.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Who is changing /var/log permissions under my feet?
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:11:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ed1fols6.fsf@burningswell.com> (raw)

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Hi Guix,

on one of my Guix systems the permissons of /var/log are set to:

drwx------  7 root root 4.0K Jan 23  1970 log

Is this expected? That would mean a regular user can't see the Guix
build logs, right?

On another Guix system, however the permissions are set to:

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 648 Jan  1 16:13 log

and here I can see the Guix build logs as a regular user.

I tried setting the permissions of /var/log to drwxr-xr-x manually,
but after the first reboot they are back to drwx------.

So, which permissions shoud /var/log actually have? And, does anyone
know who is setting those permissions on /var/log and how I can control
that? I could not find that in the code yet ...

Thanks Roman

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