-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Philippe Vogel wrote: | Isn't there a way over /etc/permissions.*? possible, but we don't want work arounds if its supposed to work otherwise ;) | Other way is to do the following _without_ prerotate or postrotate: | | /etc/logrotate.d/xyz-service | | /var/log/xyz-log { | [...] | create 0600 user group | rotate 1 | [...] | } | | Somehow this behaviour (chmod 0600 for logfiles) is default within | debian 3.x ;) this is not the problem, the problem is a simple bug in the suse(?) package of logrotate, create is only applied to the new opened logfile, not to the archives. Regards, Sven PS: thanks Marcus and Kevin Ivory for your informations! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCyrNoQoCguWUBzBwRAgo3AKCRgPECF5x40rGXpqf2JH6NqnilKgCfU97T T57m3q5hW7gCmgZ7I0FI2e0= =ttmq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----