Log file permissions

[Henrik Vendelbo]

I have tried with containing directory chown root:nobody and
nobody:nobody, I have even tried giving everyone write access with
chmod. Makes no difference.

It's odd.


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Henrik Vendelbo
>> <hvendelbo.dev at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am quite stuck trying to set up access/error logging for nginx.
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> $ ls -al /var/log/testin2.local/
>>> total 0
>>> drwxrwxr-x   3 root  nobody   102 30 May 00:17 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x  85 root  wheel   2890 30 May 00:00 ..
>>> -rwxrwx---   1 root  nobody  5496 30 May 00:21 www.access.log
>>>
>>>
>>> I run nginx as nobody:nobody, and group nobody should have write
>>> access to the log file, even so it fails with this message:
>>
>> does anybody have write permissions to the containing directly? or does
>> nobody have it?
>
> containing directory, sorry.
>
> -jf
> --
> In the meantime, here is your PSA:
> "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not
> help."
> -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228