On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Tim wrote: >On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 18:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Wanting to see who might have visited my simple web page, I installed >> awstats from the fedora repo today. >> >> The awstats selinux helper seems to be an empty file, yumex win't dl it or >> install it even when checked. >> >> >From the yumex screen: >> >> 7:59:02 : Package Queue: >> 17:59:02 : Packages to install >> 17:59:02 : ---> awstats-selinux-6.7-1.fc8.noarch >> 17:59:02 : Preparing for install/remove/update >> 17:59:02 : --> Preparing for install >> 17:59:02 : Package awstats-selinux is obsoleted by awstats, trying to >> install awstats-6.8-1.fc8.noarch instead >> 17:59:02 : Package awstats-6.8-1.fc8.noarch already installed and latest >> version >> 17:59:06 : Error in Dependency Resolution >> 17:59:06 : Success - empty transaction >> >> which is self-explanatory. >> >> But on attempting to look at my page at localhost, I get connection >> refused. >> >> So I as root, do:service httpd restart >> Stopping httpd: [FAILED] >> Starting httpd: (13)Permission denied: httpd: could not open error log >> file /etc/httpd/logs/error_log. >> Unable to open logs >> [FAILED] > >Sounds more like Apache problems, not AWStats, this is Apache failing to >start. AWStats just reads the logs, *separately*. As a regular cron >job, as I recall. Though it can be fired up on demand. > Actually, its something in the new 2.6.27-rc1 kernel that is stopping it. I just rebooted to 2.6.26 final, and its happy as a clam. The 2.6.27-rc1 kernel has some newer options targeted at net security that I haven't quite grokked yet. Back to awstats, where does this output show up? As a web page on localhost, or something it takes mrtg to look at? Also, what user does the cron entry belong to? >NB: /etc/httpd/logs/ is a symlink to /var/log/httpd That I had figured out. > >> And an selinux denial that says I can fix it with this: >> #> setsebool -P httpd_unified=1 >> >> But I've now executed that line several times without success. >> >> I've also gone through the httpd stuff and made much of it 0644 and owned >> by apache:apache. > >Why and what? Configuration and log files should be owned by root, >files to be served out of the website should be owned by the author. > I'll switch them back then. >Are you still using your computer as root, and messing up file and >directory ownerships as you go along? Here and there. If fedora would give me what I want to do, I'd use it as is, but it doesn't. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) May I ask a question? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
