Ok, thanks for the info. I'll find a workaround to change the perms at startup. Since Xorg is running as root changing the perms on that file shouldn't cause any problems from what I can tell. I've changed them manually and it didn't cause any issues. On May 30, 2014 1:04 PM, "Alan Coopersmith" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/30/14 06:13 AM, Melvin Jones wrote: > >> The default permissions on the /var/log/Xorg.n.log file are 644. I need >> all my >> log files to have perms of 640 or more restrictive. Umask is set to 077 >> in all >> init files and I've tried adding the umask to the /usr/sbin/gdm script >> which >> runs gdm-binary which starts up Xorg. However, I have not been able to >> get the >> permissions to change on the log or the logs in /var/log/gdm which are >> opened by >> the Xorg process. >> >> Is there any way to change the permissions on these log files? >> > > Sorry, but looking in the code, the Xserver has a hardcoded umask(022) > call right before creating the log file in hw/xfree86/common/xf86Init.c . > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc >
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