I just joined the mailinglist. Therefor I copied my mailed my old mail into this one.

umask sounds reasonable. But i don't have a clue how to influence it.

- toutch test results in afile with 644
- umask is 022 in /etc/bashrc
- I'm running RedHat 7.2 .

Where can I change umask for syslog-ng?

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:23:56PM +0100, Carsten Thieswald1 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try to use the option perm(0640) when creating a file. But it seems that
> only the default permission is used (0600). Putiing it in the global
> section doesn't change anything. I'm using version 1.4.15. I'm facing
> similiar problems with dir_perm.

umask ?

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