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…entation to consider umask (#35290) (cherry picked from commit 7524a41) Co-authored-by: Anderson Queiroz <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/filebeat/docs/filebeat-general-options.asciidoc b/filebeat/docs/filebeat-general-options.asciidoc
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ That means in case there are some states where the TTL expired, these are only r
 The permissions mask to apply on registry data file. The default value is 0600. The permissions option must be a valid Unix-style file permissions mask expressed in octal notation. In Go, numbers in octal notation must start with 0.
 
 The most permissive mask allowed is 0640. If a higher permissions mask is
-specified via this setting, it will be subject to a umask of 0027.
+specified via this setting, it will be subject to an umask of 0027.
 
 This option is not supported on Windows.
 

diff --git a/libbeat/docs/loggingconfig.asciidoc b/libbeat/docs/loggingconfig.asciidoc
@@ -231,6 +231,11 @@ The permissions mask to apply when rotating log files. The default value is
 expressed in octal notation. In Go, numbers in octal notation must start with
 '0'.
 
+The most permissive mask allowed is 0640. If a higher permissions mask is
+specified via this setting, it will be subject to an umask of 0027.
+
+This option is not supported on Windows.
+
 Examples:
 
 * 0644: give read and write access to the file owner, and read access to all others.