Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:49:00 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: raggen@raggens.net, User Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security? Message-ID: <p06240805c5f59b1b34cd@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <49CFDEA2.2080606@telia.com> References: <49CFDEA2.2080606@telia.com>
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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. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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