On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 02:50:57PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I know this is a rather simple problem, but I would like to hear the
> advices.
>
> I'm using a piped Custom- and ErrorLog in apache, it pipes the output to
> cronolog (the log files are rotated per 24hour). The log files are
> created with 644 permissions, and this is what I try to avoid, and
> force the new logfile to have 640 permissions.
> So far I thought of a cron line which would be `chmod -R
> o= /var/www/logs/`.
> Then the umask command came to my mind, but then I would have to make a
> script, which contains the umask line, and after that call cronolog,
> and pipe the logs to this script.
> Would someone please hint me with a more simple and elegant solution?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Daniel
The last solution works fine:
#!/bin/sh
umask 027
exec /usr/.../cronolog
The alternative would be chmod'ing the log directory to 0750, or
somesuch.
Joachim
