[syslog-ng]File Creation Permissions

[Balazs Scheidler]

> I've set up syslog-ng to create certain files with very specific
> permissions such as
> 
> destination tvc.cisco { file("/var/log/cisco/tvc-cisco.$PRIORITY" owner("admin") group("apache")
> perm(0640));};
> 
> files are created with permissions 0600.  What am I missing?

umask I suppose. syslog-ng simply uses 0640 as open mode permissions and
your umask (presumably 0600) overrides this setting.

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