On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 11:51 +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 3/13/19 11:13 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: > > When logs (e.g. /var/log/maillog) are rotated (e.g. to > > /var/log/maillog-YYYYMDD) is there a way via systemd or whatever to > > assign read permission to a specific group? > > Add the following line to /etc/logrotate.d/syslog, e.g. after sharedscripts: > > create 640 root somegroup > I thought the create command created the new log with those permissions not changed the owner/permission of the rotated logs. Alice said she would like: -rw------- 1 root root 3105240 Mar 13 22:04 maillog -rw-r----- 1 root somegroup 1079031 Feb 24 04:39 maillog-20190224 -rw-r----- 1 root somegroup 7237640 Mar 1 12:59 maillog-20190228 -rw-r----- 1 root somegroup 1297508 Mar 3 04:21 maillog-20190303 -rw-r----- 1 root somegroup 1319371 Mar 10 08:17 maillog-20190310 P.