>On one machine I can not get the mail.cgi to work from the web browser >unless I change to 644 from 640 on chmod on the maillogs. >But it seems that when the logs rotate the permsissions go back to 640. >root.wheel own the files.
in freebsd, newsyslog.conf allows you to specify the file mode: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/newsyslog.conf,v 1.25.2.10 2002/05/24 15:40:09 gshapiro Exp $ # # Note: some sites will want to select more restrictive protections than the # defaults. In particular, it may be desirable to switch many of the 644 # entries to 640 or 600. For example, some sites will consider the # contents of maillog, messages, and lpd-errs to be confidential. In the # future, these defaults may change to more conservative ones. # # logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when [ZJB] [/pid_file] [sig_num] /var/log/cron 600 3 100 * Z /var/log/amd.log 644 7 100 * Z /var/log/auth.log 600 7 100 * Z /var/log/kerberos.log 600 7 100 * Z your OS log rotator must have something similar Len
