Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/03/05/11:37:18
Hi Dave,
Dave Korn <dave.korn <at> artimi.com> writes:
> fortunately your cygcheck had the answer
This is also why I didn't add these, knowing they would be redundant.
> That error message does not say that anything is wrong with
> /var/log/apache2. It says that something is wrong with
> /var/log/apache2/error_log.
>
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 emagiro Domain Users 4788 Mar 3 12:01 error_log
Thanks, indeed.
> Account : LocalSystem
> ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> you have installed it to run as the LocalSystem user. LocalSystem does not
> have write permission for that file because LocalSystem is not you.
cygrunsrv did it... I ran cygrnsrv.
> This probably happened because you probably manually ran apache2 under
> your own user id while doing the installation
Now that you mention it, this is correct.
> - this is why we really need to know exactly what you did and every step
> on the way - and it was the first time it had ever been run, which means
> that it created the files for the logs for the first time because they
> didn't exists yet, which means it was running as you and created them
> only with perms for you.
Makes sense.
> You chould 'chown' the log files so LocalSystem owns them, or you could
> delete them and let apache2 recreate them next time it runs.
Thanks. It worked (I did the latter, which resulted in:
apache2> ll
total 9
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 emagiro Users 0 Mar 5 16:32 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 emagiro Users 0 Mar 5 12:36 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM Administrators 0 Mar 5 16:32 access_log
-rw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM Administrators 3255 Mar 5 16:32 error_log
Marc
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