How to configure permissions of log files created by rsyslog
Issue
- How can the default permissions of a log file (e.g. /var/log/messages) be changed to make it world-writeable?
- Changing permissions of system log files via
createdirectives in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog doesn't work with rsyslog v5 (e.g. in RHEL6). No matter what is configured vialogrotate, log files always have 600 permissions.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- rsyslog
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