Re: Strange apache behaviour?

["Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>]

Yes, for security, and it is easier to see what processes are taking too
long to run.

But now that apache saves the log files so that users can't read them...
it doesn't work anymore :-/

Any ideas on how to make the logfiles a+r?

Sincerely,
Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: "James" <james@fr.clara.net>
To: "Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>
Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: Strange apache behaviour?


>
> It is usual to run webalizer as a user? I have never even thought of
> doing that. Is there any particular reason? (security?)
>
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Jason Lim wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Do you know how to change the permissions of the log files apache
> > generates?
> >
> > -rw-r-----    1 www-data www-data  1372461 Dec  7 13:04
apache-access.log
> > -rw-r-----    1 www-data www-data   740269 Dec  2 06:21
> > apache-access.log.0
> > -rw-r-----    1 www-data www-data    44414 Nov 25 05:52
> > apache-access.log.1.gz
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 www-data www-data   167114 Sep 23 06:10
> > apache-access.log.10.gz
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 www-data www-data    13069 Sep 16 06:06
> > apache-access.log.11.gz
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 www-data www-data    14357 Sep  9 06:04
> > apache-access.log.12.gz
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 www-data www-data    21209 Sep  2 06:24
> > apache-access.log.13.gz
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 www-data www-data     5979 Nov 19  2000
> > apache-access.log.14.gz
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 www-data www-data    36771 Nov 18 06:23
> > apache-access.log.2.gz
> >
> > It USED to be readable by all, now the persmissions have changed
(which in
> > my case screws up the webalizer processes run by users).
> >
> > Having a look at the changelog...
> >
> > apache (1.3.22-1) unstable; urgency=low
> >   * Default ownership of logfiles is root/adm, perms 640 (closes:
> >     #112675).
> >
> > Thats all nice a good... but how to I get it 644? I looked and can't
> > appear to find it. Closest thing I could find was in
> > /etc/apache/cron.conf, but that only sets the uid/gid, not the file
> > permissions of the logfiles.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Jason
> >
> >
> >
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