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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
