[plug] Log file permissions - wuftpd

Adam Davin bladebadger at westnet.com.au
Mon Dec 6 09:21:19 WST 2004


G'day Mike, 

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:05:22 +0800
Mike Holland <myk.list at westnet.com.au> wrote:

> Adam Davin wrote:
> 
> > I can't find any documentation that allows me to tell wu-ftpd to set the
> > xferlog with a particular GID (other than root) so that I can create a
> 
> Generally, the log files are not created by the writing program, unless 
> they don't already exist. The logfiles are created by "logrotate", and
> ownership and permissions can be set in /etc/logrotate.d/*
> Your answer is in logrotate(8) .
> 
Thanks, I think that was what I was after! It seems that the xferlog is only truncated (not rotated out) so I am guessing that permissions should not change. 

Regards, 

Adam.



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