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-rw-r--r--gnu/services/base.scm15
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 4adb551796..a4005fc4fd 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -1574,16 +1574,11 @@ reload its settings file.")))
(display #$(G_ "Service syslog is not running."))))))))
;; Note: a static file name is used for syslog.conf so that the reload
;; action work as intended.
- (start #~(let ((spawn (make-forkexec-constructor
- (list #$(syslog-configuration-syslogd config)
- #$(string-append "--rcfile=" syslog.conf))
- #:pid-file "/var/run/syslog.pid")))
- (lambda ()
- ;; Set the umask such that file permissions are #o640.
- (let ((mask (umask #o137))
- (pid (spawn)))
- (umask mask)
- pid))))
+ (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
+ (list #$(syslog-configuration-syslogd config)
+ #$(string-append "--rcfile=" syslog.conf))
+ #:file-creation-mask #o137
+ #:pid-file "/var/run/syslog.pid"))
(stop #~(make-kill-destructor))))
(define syslog-service-type