On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:04:07AM -0500, Michael D. (Mick) Bauer wrote:

If I define a logfile with perms "-rw-r------" using the following in syslog.conf:

destination d_micklog { file("/var/log/micklog" owner(mick) group(wheel) perm(0640)); };

a file is created that looks like this (ls -l output):

-rw------- 1 mick wheel 57 Sep 27 10:03 /var/log/micklog

Why aren't the "group" bits being set? At first I thought maybe I needed to "invert" the mode a là umode, but that isn't it. Ideas?

The permission settings from within C code are still subject to the umask of the user/process creating the file. Do you set a umask in your init scripts? Do you start syslog-ng as root with a restrictive umask setting? -- Nate