[arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

[Jan de Groot]

On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 12:01 +0200, bardo wrote:
> I was requested by a user to create a /var/log/mldonkey/ directory and
> put log files there, owned by the daemon-configured user, however I'm
> not too fond of the idea of having user-owned files in a system
> directory like /var/log/, even though in an isolated part of it.
> 
> Can I have an opinion from developers about this matter?

That's the only solution if your daemon doesn't log through syslog.