Ok, thanks for the info. I'll find a workaround to change the perms at startup. Since Xorg is running as root changing the perms on that file shouldn't cause any problems from what I can tell. I've changed them manually and it didn't cause any issues. <div class="gmail_quote">On May 30, 2014 1:04 PM, "Alan Coopersmith" <<a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 05/30/14 06:13 AM, Melvin Jones wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> The default permissions on the /var/log/Xorg.n.log file are 644. I need all my log files to have perms of 640 or more restrictive. Umask is set to 077 in all init files and I've tried adding the umask to the /usr/sbin/gdm script which runs gdm-binary which starts up Xorg. However, I have not been able to get the permissions to change on the log or the logs in /var/log/gdm which are opened by the Xorg process. Is there any way to change the permissions on these log files? </blockquote> Sorry, but looking in the code, the Xserver has a hardcoded umask(022) call right before creating the log file in hw/xfree86/common/xf86Init.c . -- -Alan Coopersmith- <a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com" target="_blank">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a> Oracle Solaris Engineering - <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc" target="_blank">http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc</a> </blockquote></div>