On Sun 05 Jul 2015 at 13:03:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Can anyone explain these strange journald permissions? > > -rw-r-x---+ 1 root root 16777216 2015-07-05 12:57:55 system.journal* > -rw-r-x---+ 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 2015-07-05 12:17:21 user-1000.journal* > > More precisely, why the bit x for the group? All I can say is that for a newly installed up-to-date Jessie the permissions for system.journal are 640.