Hello Peter, >> As I had suspected the xrootd/olbd logfiles permissions got screwed up >> after the daily move to a new file. Namely, I just granted read access to >> these files (as requested Peter) but after midnight the new file got the >> default file access again. >> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 xrootd wheel 362234 Feb 18 22:14 >> /tmp/babar2.olblog.20050218 >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 xrootd wheel 130996 Feb 18 23:00 >> /tmp/babar2.xrdlog.20050218 >> -rw------- 1 xrootd wheel 1208 Feb 19 00:04 /tmp/babar2.olblog >> -rw------- 1 xrootd wheel 388 Feb 19 01:00 /tmp/babar2.xrdlog > > This is presumably just your shell settings. Try looking with umask to > see what the settings are. You probably want "022". (I guess it is, uh, 077...) umask is already set to 0022 so it should come from somewhere else. Also if I create a new file in /tmp it would have the attributes "-rw-r--r--" > I'm not sure why the old files has the x bit set, though. Did you do that > with 'chmod' or did rotation do it? (I'd be suprised if it was the rotation.) The 'x' is my typo with chmod; sorry. Cheers, Gregory