[Xymon] histlog file permissions

[Mike Burger]

> Hi.
>
> I recently noticed I'm not able to view the history log file via the web
> interface. I can see that when it was working the histlog files had
> permissions of 644. For some reason they are now written with 640
> permissions and xymon is unable to display them. If I manually chmod to
> 644
> xymon can read them. Where can we configure the permissions with which
> these files are written? I'm talking about the files at xymon/data/hislogs
> by the way. I should also mention that xymon:xymon has ownership of these
> files.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon.

You may be able to accomplish this by setting an appropriate umask in the
xymon user's profile.

Otherwise, it might be simpler to put your the user which owns your apache
install into the xymon group.