diff -ur logrotate-3.6.2~/logrotate.c logrotate-3.6.2/logrotate.c
--- logrotate-3.6.2~/logrotate.c	Sat Mar 23 23:22:17 2002
+++ logrotate-3.6.2/logrotate.c	Sat Mar 23 23:24:24 2002
@@ -139,13 +139,13 @@
 	    return 1;
 	}
 	if ((fdsave = open(saveLog, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC,
-		sb->st_mode)) < 0) {
+		(S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR) & sb->st_mode)) < 0) {
 	    message(MESS_ERROR, "error creating %s: %s\n", saveLog,
 		strerror(errno));
 	    close(fdcurr);
 	    return 1;
 	}
-	if (fchmod(fdsave, sb->st_mode)) {
+	if (fchmod(fdsave, (S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR) & sb->st_mode)) {
 	    message(MESS_ERROR, "error setting mode of %s: %s\n",
 		saveLog, strerror(errno));
 	    close(fdcurr);
@@ -159,6 +159,13 @@
 	    close(fdsave);
 	    return 1;
 	}
+	if (fchmod(fdsave, sb->st_mode)) {
+	    message(MESS_ERROR, "error setting mode of %s: %s\n",
+		saveLog, strerror(errno));
+	    close(fdcurr);
+	    close(fdsave);
+	    return 1;
+	}
 	while ((cnt = read(fdcurr, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0) {
 	    if (write(fdsave, buf, cnt) != cnt) {
 		message(MESS_ERROR, "error writing to %s: %s\n", 
@@ -459,13 +466,13 @@
                     "gid = %d\n", createMode, createUid, createGid);
 	    
             if (!debug) {
-                fd = open(log->files[logNum], O_CREAT | O_RDWR, createMode);
+                fd = open(log->files[logNum], O_CREAT | O_RDWR, (S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR) & createMode);
                 if (fd < 0) {
                     message(MESS_ERROR, "error creating %s: %s\n", 
                             log->files[logNum], strerror(errno));
                     hasErrors = 1;
                 } else {
-                    if (fchmod(fd, createMode)) {
+                    if (fchmod(fd, (S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR) & createMode)) {
                         message(MESS_ERROR, "error setting mode of "
                                 "%s: %s\n", log->files[logNum], 
 				strerror(errno));
@@ -477,6 +484,12 @@
 				strerror(errno));
                         hasErrors = 1;
 		    }
+                    if (fchmod(fd, createMode)) {
+                        message(MESS_ERROR, "error setting mode of "
+                                "%s: %s\n", log->files[logNum], 
+				strerror(errno));
+                        hasErrors = 1;
+                    }
 		    
                     close(fd);
 		}