On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:08:04PM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > <20091027012939.ga19...@localhost.localdomain> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > > Try becoming the www-data user and trying the above > > > line from the command line directly? perhaps you'll get some helpful > > > output. > > Actually I did intended to send the output of the above in my original mail= > but I forgot. Here is the output: > debian:~# sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -updat= > e -config=3Dmydomain > > Create/Update database for config "/etc/awstats/awstats.mydomain.conf" by A= > WStats version 6.7 (build 1.892) > >From data in log file "/var/log/apache2/access.log"... > Error: Couldn't open server log file "/var/log/apache2/access.log" : Permis= > sion denied
what are the permissions on /var/log/apache2?
> Setup ('/etc/awstats/awstats.mydoamin.conf' file=2C web server or permissio=
> ns) may be wrong.
> Check config file=2C permissions and AWStats documentation (in 'docs' direc=
> tory).
> debian:~#=20
>
> Not sure where else I need to give permission to www-data. As noted in my p=
> revious mail=2C access.log already has "read" permission. Also I checked "a=
> wstats.mydomain.conf" but did not find anything related to www-data and cro=
> n jobs.
not sure what else to suggest. On my machines access.log has
permissions
-rw-r---- root adm
so to read the logs chmod o+r or access them from the adm group.
sorry, I've got nothing else to suggest.
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