On May 14, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Alex Huang (Gorilla) wrote: > I should add that the very first log file is created with the non-root user > as the owner and group and log messages are successfully written to it. It > is the rolling over of the log file that has a permission problem. > > Alex
I'm guessing that the logging request that triggers the rollover unfortunately has the user set to root and so the new file is created with those permissions. Perhaps you could provide a custom triggering policy and delay rolling over until a non-root request is received.