Something in the reboot "fixes" owner:group in /var/log

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

10-04.4 LTS, 32 bit with rtai patches here.

I just lost about an hour trying to restart fetchmail here at the coyote's 
den.  Something in the reboot process apparently 'fixed' all the files in 
/var/log to be owned by root:root.

For security reasons fetchmail runs as me, not root, and being locked out 
of its logfile for lack of perms kills it.  No fetchmail, no incoming mail. 
:(

Now, can this be fixed?, or do I have to move these log files to ~/log 
where they are protected from such tom-foolery, and then of course write a 
personal logrotate script to handle those too?

Anyone have a clue about this?

Thanks to any replier.

Cheers, Gene
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