On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 02:50:57PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > Then the umask command came to my mind, but then I would have to make a > script, which contains the umask line, and after that call cronolog, > and pipe the logs to this script. > Would someone please hint me with a more simple and elegant solution?
I think the shell script solution is fine, but if you want something more flexible, put the following into /usr/local/bin/with-umask: #!/bin/sh -e umask "$1"; shift exec "$@" and then change your call to cronolog... to with-umask 027 cronolog....