Re: Log file permissions? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Log file permissions?
Date
Msg-id 20080131203925.GJ8602@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Log file permissions?  (Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>)
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Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> I think you should be able to chmod the files after they have been
>> created.  The postmaster changes its umask to 0077, so no file is
>> group-readable.  I don't think is configurable either.
>
> just move the logs into a subdir which has permissions applied to it,
> then not worry about the files inside, since nobody can break through
> the directory anyhow.

That doesn't work because the files won't be readable by anyone but the
postgres user.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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