Thanks. Am running freebsd 4.8 so will go check. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:27 PM Subject: [IMGate] Re: OT:Need a clue
> > > >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 > >
