Contradictory messages about log files

Hi guys, I see that logging is now disabled by default.. From the Log Files (Debug) screen, it says this:

“However, it is VERY IMPORTANT to disable logging once you go live. Log files may contain personally identifiable information, credit card numbers, secret API credentials, passwords and/or other sensitive information. We STRONGLY suggest that logging be disabled on a live site (for security reasons).”

So that makes sense, but when I disable the log directory by changing its permissions, I get this warning:

“Permissions error. The security-enabled logs directory (/wp-content/plugins/s2member-logs) is not writable. Please make this directory writable (chmod 777).”

So my question: is it safe to ignore this contradictory message? Or for some reason does the directory need to be writable even when logging is disabled?

Thanks for any help or clues about this.

Well, you need it to be writable when you have logging enabled, and it doesn’t affect to have it writable if you don’t have logging enabled.

I think you can ignore the permissions warning for that directory if you’re not logging, as long as you remember to change it when you do want to log.

That is what I needed to hear, thank you Cristián! :)