diff -urp audit-2.6.5.orig/src/auditd-event.c audit-2.6.5/src/auditd-event.c

--- audit-2.6.5.orig/src/auditd-event.c	2016-07-14 10:25:39.000000000 -0400

+++ audit-2.6.5/src/auditd-event.c	2016-08-10 09:24:41.450386810 -0400

@@ -907,8 +907,7 @@ static void fix_disk_permissions(void)

 	for (i = 1; i < config->num_logs; i++) {

 		int rc;

 		snprintf(path, len, "%s.%d", config->log_file, i);

-		rc = chmod(path, config->log_group ? S_IWUSR|S_IRUSR|S_IRGRP :

-			S_IWUSR|S_IRUSR);

+		rc = chmod(path, config->log_group ? S_IRUSR|S_IRGRP : S_IRUSR);

 		if (rc && errno == ENOENT)

 			break;

 	}