I have an issue with svlogd where I need it to write files with 0640 perms, but it wants to write with 0644 perms. I tried to toss a umask call in my runscript: [root@ares apparmor.d]# cat /service/auditd/log/run #!/bin/execlineb # logging for the auditd service; unfortunately we need to run as root here # so that genprof will look at our log /bin/foreground { /usr/bin/install -m 0700 -d -o root -g root /var/log/system/audit } /bin/cd /var/log/service /bin/umask 026 /sbin/svlogd /var/log/system/audit This doesn't seem to make a difference to svlogd. Looking in the manpage, I didn't see anything about changing the permissions of files it creates. But even with the above I get: [root@ares apparmor.d]# ls -l /var/log/system/audit/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 30 16:17 current -rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 30 16:17 lock What am I missing or do I have to change something in svlogd itself? Since Annvix is now using socklog by default, I need to make sure logs are 0640. The directory permissions are correct, but the log file permissions are not. -- {FEE30AD4 : 7F6C A60C 06C2 4811 FA1C A2BC 2EBC 5E32 FEE3 0AD4} mysql> SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0; Empty set (0.00sec)