You have been subscribed to a public bug: The default logfile_mode of 0644 is successfully enforced, however, using the flag to set permissions of logs to anything else results in incorrect permissions:
ubuntu@ip-10-114-85-19:/var/log/nova$ sudo nova-compute --logfile_mode=0644 ubuntu@ip-10-114-85-19:/var/log/nova$ ls -lh total 4.0K --w----r-T 1 root root 1.1K 2011-09-30 03:40 nova-compute.log ubuntu@ip-10-114-85-19:/var/log/nova$ stat nova-compute.log | grep Access Access: (1204/--w----r-T) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) ubuntu@ip-10-114-85-19:/var/log/nova$ sudo nova-compute --logfile_mode=0600 ubuntu@ip-10-114-85-19:/var/log/nova$ ls -lh total 4.0K ---x-wx--T 1 root root 1.6K 2011-09-30 03:41 nova-compute.log ubuntu@ip-10-114-85-19:/var/log/nova$ stat nova-compute.log | grep Access Access: (1130/---x-wx--T) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) ** Affects: nova Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: nova (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- --logfile_mode flag does not properly set logfile permissions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/862969 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to nova in Ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs