log4perl-devel

[log4perl-devel] set file permissions for Log::Dispatch::FileRotate appender?

[Jeff M. <je...@ya...>]

Hi folks.

I'm using log4perl in the obvious way.
We have reqs to set the mode of the log file to 0666.

using

log4perl.appender.PUSHD=Log::Dispatch::FileRotate
log4perl.appender.PUSHD.filename=/tmp/pushd.log
log4perl.appender.PUSHD.mode=append
log4perl.appender.PUSHD.permissions = 
S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH
# rotate among 5 log files of 10Mbytes each
log4perl.appender.PUSHD.size=100kb
log4perl.appender.PUSHD.max=5

results in 5 files of mode 0;

permissions=0666 gets passed as a string through the layers, not as an 
octal number, and results in:

--w--wx-wT  1 nobody nobody 1063 Nov  2 12:41 pushd.log*

Anyone have a recipe here that works?

-- jeff

Re: [log4perl-devel] set file permissions for Log::Dispatch::FileRotate appender?

[Mike S. <m...@pe...>]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Jeff McCarrell wrote:

> I'm using log4perl in the obvious way.  We have reqs to set the mode
> of the log file to 0666.
> log4perl.appender.PUSHD.filename=/tmp/pushd.log
> log4perl.appender.PUSHD.mode=append
> log4perl.appender.PUSHD.permissions
> = S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH # rotate among 5 log
> files of 10Mbytes each log4perl.appender.PUSHD.size=100kb
> log4perl.appender.PUSHD.max=5
>
> results in 5 files of mode 0; permissions=0666 gets passed as a string
> through the layers, not as an octal number, and results in: --w--wx-wT
> 1 nobody nobody 1063 Nov  2 12:41 pushd.log*

Unless you say explicitly that the right-hand side of a log4perl config
line is Perl code, it's interpreted as a string. So, if you say

   log4perl.appender.PUSHD.permission = sub { use POSIX;
S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH }

instead, it'll work as intended.

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
m...@pe...