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Old 04-22-2002
ajkiruba ajkiruba is offline
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Dear Kelam

The application requires of the user to create the log file - and hence i do. When i create the log file openwebmail.log in the directory /var/log i am as a superuser. The question is how the permissions get changed automatically ? I wonder if there is any security mechanism of the Linux OS which make this change ? Irrespective of the no. of times i change the permission and mode of the file, they get changed automatically after 25 minutes.

I've checked the configuration file. The configuration file just has an indication to the path of the log file and nothing more related to the permissions and mode. Otherwise, the scripts have been wirtten in Perl script about which i don't have any idea at all.

Kindly help me.

Thanks & regards

- jose
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Thanks & regards

- jose