Log file permissions

Jeffrey 'jf' Lim jfs.world at gmail.com
Fri May 30 14:37:13 MSD 2008


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?

-jf'

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