Re: need help in dealing with a simple thing (file permissions)

[Matthew R. Dempsky]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 02:50:57PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> 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?

I think the shell script solution is fine, but if you want something
more flexible, put the following into /usr/local/bin/with-umask:

#!/bin/sh -e
umask "$1"; shift
exec "$@"

and then change your call to

cronolog...

to

with-umask 027 cronolog

Re: need help in dealing with a simple thing (file permissions)

[LeVA]

2006. October 21. 16:23, Han Boetes:
> Read /etc/newsyslog and man newsyslog.
>
>
> # Han
Thanks, but newsyslog can not help me, because it can not reload my 
apache when the rotation happening (it is chrooted and has to load 
external modules).

Daniel

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LeVA

Re: need help in dealing with a simple thing (file permissions)

[Han Boetes]

Read /etc/newsyslog and man newsyslog.


# Han

Re: need help in dealing with a simple thing (file permissions)

[Joachim Schipper]

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

need help in dealing with a simple thing (file permissions)

[LeVA]

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

-- 
LeVA