[ale] Any reason not to open read permissions to /var/log/messages?

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> /var/log/messages is currently only read/write for root with no 
> permissions for anyone else.
> 
> Other than ?none of their business? can anyone tell me any reason not to 
> allow DBAs the ability to read the file (i.e. change it to be read for 
> group and other)?

On most systems /var/log/messages catches a lot of stuff. Why not figure 
out what facility generates the log messages that the DBAs need and 
configure syslog to put just those messages into a file for them to read?

-Brian