Re: [RFC] - Some notions that I would like comments on

Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:22:01 -0300

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> dmesg/syslog already offer this: you can specify messages to be of
> debugging priority and only log higher priority messages to syslog.
> "dmesg" will tell you all of the recent unlogged messages.

That works (on my system), but I don't think it should. /bin/dmesg is 755 and
syslog(3, ...) is allowed for normal users, which allows them to see stuff
that maybe they shouldn't.

If this really is a bug, then it would be useful for normal users to see what
the kernel has to say about their processes.

Jeff

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