Hi Gregory, I check in XrdOucLogger.cc and the file is definitely opened with mode 644 (i.e., rw-r--w--), so somene is changing the perms. That's the way files are created here. I'm somewhat mystified. Andy On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Gregory Schott wrote: > 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 >