Hi Gregory, The log files, by default, are created with permission bits 0644. It would appear that the umask is not correct. I'll change the start-up script to set the correct umask but until then, just set it yourself. You will, ufortunately, have to restart xrootd. Andy On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Gregory Schott wrote: > Hello, > > New xrootd logfile (created at midnight) and files newly copied via xrdcp > (as well as directories) get by default 600 (or 700) attributes. How could > I change that in order to automatically allow the group members to read > the newly copied files? (For information, the current umask is 0022; in > the unix world, if I touch a new file it gets permission 644 and new > directories 755). > > Another problem I have is that xrootd is part of 2 groups: wheel and babar > and that by default the files are marked as group wheel instead of babar. > I think I have to ask the gridka admins to change that, except if there is > a possibility to change it in the xrootd or xrdcp programme. > > Cheers, > Gregory >