Hi,

i had install apache webserver under Fedora. I set a server with 4 virtual hosts. And now i want to install AWStats to analyze my logs files. But i need to split the log files for each day. So i use cronolog to split de files.

When I start the http daemon by myself (under root user) i'm able to see the log files. But when i use tghe service command i got an error "Permission Denied". I try to find if a special user is need to start the services, or if there any special access required to write the log files.

I was also able with the service command to write in /tmp . But i would like to store my logfiles in /vat/log/httpd

I checked also the proccess for each task... Apache use apache user but cronolog seem to be root user.

I do somes tests while i write this message... Is it possible that's it's unable to cronolog to create logs but to append a to file?

So if some people got this problem and fix it let me know!

Thanks

Hi,
Make sure that the user running Apache (apache, httpd, nobody) is able to write to the log directory /var/log/httpd. If you are using cronolog v1.7.0beta or v1.6.2 with the jumbo patch added you can specify the use that will own the cronolog process and the log files.

Regards,
Jimvin

I try with the beta version and I still got the same problem. Here the entries in my httpd.conf file :

Check the ownership of the log directory; can 'apache' write to this dir?

ls -ld /var/log/httpd

Regards,
Jimvin

The user apache already have right to this folder.

I'm able to append lines to the log file but unable to create new log files.

Here the result for the folder :
drwxrwxr-x 3 apache apache 4096 Jan 1 11:25 /var/log/httpd

And the error_log file from apache :
piped log program '/usr/local/sbin/cronolog -u apache -g apache -S /var/log/httpd/laronde-access_log -x /tmp/debug /var/log/httpd/%Y/laronde%m%d-access_log' failed unexpectedly
/var/log/httpd/2006: Permission denied