Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:08:06 +0200 From: Roger Olofsson <240olofsson@telia.com> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security? Message-ID: <49D061C6.6060104@telia.com> In-Reply-To: <p06240805c5f59b1b34cd@[128.113.24.47]> References: <49CFDEA2.2080606@telia.com> <p06240805c5f59b1b34cd@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosehn skrev: > At 10:48 PM +0200 3/29/09, Roger Olofsson wrote: >> Dear mailing list, >> >> I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and >> newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim. >> >> Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf: >> /var/log/security 644 7 5000 * JC > > > Are you sure that's the only line you have for /var/log/security in > your /etc/newsyslog.conf file? The distributed config file has: > > /var/log/security 600 10 100 * JC > > Obviously you have a different entry from that, but did you remove > the original entry? > >> Output from newsyslog -vn: >> chmod 600 /var/log/security.0.bz2 >> >> Why is the mode not 644? >> >> /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart and newsyslog restart have been performed. > > I tried changing the permissions-field in my newsyslog.conf from 600 > to 644, and newsyslog worked correctly for me. > Hi Garance, You are correct! I missed the original line. Silly me :^D Thank you very much! /R
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