Hello Andy, > 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. I had in the past already changed the permissions of the log files but it gets reset at midnight for the next day. I just stopped xrootd, changed the permissions of the two logfiles and restarted the daemons... let's see in 21:30 hours what happens. What about the part concerning writing of root files with xrdcp? Cheers, Gregory > 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 >> >