Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de> skribis:
>>
>>>From 43c9ded791ce5b480504ce3528ee34578168f90e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
>>> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 13:58:28 +0200
>>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] service: Create log files as non-world-readable.
>>>
>>> * modules/shepherd/service.scm (exec-command): Create log-file with file
>>>   permissions #o640.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>From e491436967a912e6e7372f582b3bf5c9784b8209 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
>>> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 13:38:47 +0200
>>> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] service: Add #:file-creation-mask to
>>>  'make-forkexec-constructor'.
>>>
>>> * modules/shepherd/service.scm (exec-command): Add #:file-creation-mask
>>>   parameter and honor it.
>>>   (fork+exec-command): Add #:file-creation-mask parameter and pass it to
>>>   exec-command.
>>>   (make-forkexec-constructor): Add #:file-creation-mask parameter and pass it
>>>   to fork+exec-command.
>>> * doc/shepherd.texi (Service De- and Constructors): Adjust accordingly.
>>
>> I went ahead and pushed these two patches.
>
> These patches are in Shepherd 0.8.0, which was pushed in Guix master
> commit e3358a831e7d5d9e8dc614340e49ea5aeb11a7ff, so we’re done!

Great!  Now we can simplify the 'start' method of
'syslogd-service-type'.

I did eventually write a test script, which I've attached in case we
want to add it to the Shepherd.  I'm sorry it took so long that I missed
the new Shepherd release.

Regards,

Diego