Repair Permissions Feedback ?

Question

I usually repair permissions about once a week or so and find that it repairs the same thing almost every time? I am just wondering what exactly it is and why it keeps having to be repaired? Any help would be appreciated.
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Determining correct file permissions.
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r-----
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Permissions repair complete
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
Thanks
MBP   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   1.83GHz 15.4" 2GB

Answer 1

That message means that the weekly cron task has been run since you last used the repair permissions command; this task sets the permissions on the secure.log file as well as several others to -rw-r----- after rotating the logs, which allows all admin users to read the log. The repair permissions command changes them to -rw------- to keep the secure.log file secure, with only root able to read or change the log's contents.
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