Repair Permissions keeps correcting the same permission.

Tiger–Repair Permissions corrects the owner group of ./private/Var/log/secure.log to -rw------ from -rw-r-------. It is my father's iMac and he firmly believes that this incorrect permission slows the computer. Once the permissions are changed, they soon return to the same setting and are trapped again by Repair Permissions. Question...is this an invisible file that could slow the computer? Is it only a log? Should this quirk just be ignored?
blue skies, Phillip
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

AFAIK, that's a cosmetic bug that occurs when the daily maintenance task rotates the various logs. It won't affect system performance. Unless there's some underlying problem he's trying to fix, tell him to ignore it and advise him to only repair permissions after he updates Apple software.

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I don't know who started with the "repairs complete means everything is fine" business, but they were wrong and it is repeated far too often by too many people on this site.
Considering all of the messages erroneously being dismissed as "informational", it is ironic that the one message that is actually just "informational" is the one being given special significance.
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Check the startup disk ... (not the same as repairing permissions)
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Hi, Hattori.
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YES I KEEP ASKING THE SAME QUESTION I KEEP GETTING THE SAME ANSWER AND IT IS NOT RESOLVING THE PROBLEM AND CHAT KEEPS SENDING ME BACK TO THE FORUMS THEY SAY THEIR EXPERTS WILL BE ABLE TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM BUT IT IS NOT RESOLVED YET I KEEP GETTING THE SAME ANSWER FROM FORUM EXPERTS WELL THAT IS NOT WORKING I NEED A SOLUTION THAT WILL WORK I PAID FOR THIS AND I WANT TO USE IT BUT I CANNOT
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