Frage zu logrotate

Hallo Leute,

ich habe unter SuSE SLES 10 SP 1 ein Problem mit logrotate. /var/log/messages wird nach der Rotation stets als -rw-r----- angelegt. -rw-r--r-- ist von mit gewünscht.
An den Rechten im Verzeichnis selbst kann es wohl kaum liegen:
# ls -ld /var/log
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 12288 Feb 17 10:52 /var/log
Also die Konfiguration:
# cat /etc/logrotate.conf
...

1. create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones

create
...

1. RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory

include /etc/logrotate.d
...

# cat /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
...
/var/log/warn /var/log/messages /var/log/allmessages /var/log/localmessages /var/log/firewall {
compress
dateext
maxage 365
rotate 99
missingok
notifempty
size +4096k
create 0644 root root
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/syslog reload
endscript
}
...
# ll /var/log/messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6548 Feb 17 11:08 /var/log/messages
# logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf
...
rotating pattern: /var/log/warn /var/log/messages /var/log/allmessages /var/log/localmessages /var/log/firewall forced from command line (99 rotations)
...
rotating log /var/log/messages, log->rotateCount is 99
renaming /var/log/messages to /var/log/messages-20090217
creating new log mode = 0644 uid = 0 gid = 0
running postrotate script
Reload syslog service done
compressing log with: /usr/bin/bzip2
...
# ll /var/log/messages
-rw-r----- 1 root root 7470 Feb 17 11:30 /var/log/messages

Weiß jemand Rat?

Gruß Arenist