I've been using sysopen with 0666 to get -rw-rw-rw- and found that the file ended up as 0644...turns out that the default umask was 0222 and that was combing with my 0666 to get 0644...we ended up defining umask as 0000 just before the sysopen and the file privileges ended up as the desired 0666...is there a better way of doing this? 
 # Set the umask to 0's so if we have to create the file, we do it w/0
+666 mask.
    323     # NOTE: The default umask for users is 0022, so creating a
+ file will mask it with 0666 &* 0022 = 0644
    324     umask 0000;
    325     sysopen( FH, $log_file_name, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND
+, 0666 )
    326       or die "\n\tcan't open $log_file_name....$!\n";

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In reply to umask with 0666 by Anonymous Monk

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