Thanks Jonathon. Both attempts were within the execlineb context, so I assume that umask was correctly employed ;). I tried
My initial attempt #!/usr/local/bin/execlineb -P s6-setuidgid uucp redirfd -r 0 /services/ntp/fifo umask 037 /usr/local/bin/s6-log -b n14 r7000 s100000 S3000000 !"/usr/bin/xz -7q" /var/log/ntpd which results in notice of "# echo: write: Broken pipe"; the ntp process properly starts but there is no ntp logging process. --- The usual flow is echo: write: Broken pipe ... and in quick succession (<1 sec): # ps -axww | grep ntpd 28869 - Rs 0:00.00 s6-setuidgid uucp redirfd -r 0 /service/fifo umask 037 /usr/local/bin/s6-log -b n14 r7000 s100000 S3000000 !/usr/bin/xz -7q /var/log/ntpd # ps -axww | grep ntpd 29457 - Ss 0:00.03 /usr/local/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -u ntpd -x -G --nofork and /var/log/ntpd folder is empty (with mode rwx------) --- If I move umask up one line (before redirfd), the logging process doesn't start; and blocks the start of ntp. There is a dependency relationship ntp-log <- ntp so this is expected. I was surprised that umask didn't work, but not overly concerned; as Colin, quite rightly, pointed to my directory permissions as being adequate. Now to migrate sendmail and its milters... Regards, Dewayne
