Log File Permissions Issue

["Duncan McDonald" <duncan@gpats.com.au>]

Hi All,

I recently installed Awstats on my machine (running Sarge) and everything 
seems to be working except that it seems to have trouble accessing the 
Apache log files.

As my log files belong to root and the group 'adm', when the Awstats 
generation script is run by 'www-data' it triggers a "permission denied" 
error. I've managed to get it running by changing the ownership of the logs 
to www-data, but of course when a new log file is created it reverts to root 
ownership.

Is there a way to grant access for all log files to www-data or should I run 
the Awstats script as root?

Cheers,

   -Duncan