Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security?

[Roger Olofsson]

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