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

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Log file permissions?
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Msg-id 3431BA52-AD52-41BA-8DDB-050254169DD0@khera.org
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In response to Re: Log file permissions?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Glyn Astill wrote:
>
>> I'm not piping it to a file, postgres is managing the logs. Is there
>> any way to manage the permissions, or do I just need to create a
>> script to change the permissions?
>
> 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.


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