Re: [log4perl-devel] log file permissions issues, pls advise

[Hugh E. <he...@re...>]

Thank you sir.  That worked and I just sang your praises as a "responsive" package maintainer on perlmonks.org/.  

That reminder of the need for apache to be able to write to the log's parent directory got me moving again.  I put the log in /tmp and everything started working.  

And as a security precaution, I'm wondering if it is possible to move this log out of /tmp, without risking some other file system heirarchy to the risks of letting apache write to it?  Any ideas on this one?  

-- Hugh 

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:55:17 -0800 (PST)
Mike Schilli <m...@pe...> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Hugh Esco wrote:
> 
> > Hello folks. This looks like a great tool. But I'm stumped out the
> > outset here by some permission issues I've been unable to track
> > down. Using Log::Log4perl, I'm getting errors in the browser looking
> > like this:
> >
> >       There has been an error: Cannot write to '/var/log/apache-ssl/dpr.log':
> >       Permission denied at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/Log/Dispatch/File.pm line 86.
> >
> > Although, when I su - www-data (my apache user), I am able to update
> > the last modification date with the touch command and use vim to
> > edit the log file, as well.
> >
> > Can anyone here please advise why my log file would be inaccessible
> > to this web application? Thank you for your time.
> 
> "touch" doesn't require write permissions on the file, appending does:
> 
> $ touch file
> $ chmod -w file
> $ touch file
> $ echo foo >>file
> bash: file: Permission denied
> 
> So, what you need are write permissions on your /var/log/apache-ssl/dpr.log file,
> either for the owner or the group.
> 
> By the way, the file appender will create the file according to the
> specified umask settings if it doesn't exist yet. In this case, it
> requires write permissions on the directory the file will be
> located in.
> 
> -- Mike
> 
> Mike Schilli
> m...@pe...
> 
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