Something silly must be going on. Those user/group exist? Are the UID and GID correct (unique from root?, not 1?) Does apache start correctly? Perhaps it was run as root once and that set the perms? > -----Original Message----- > From: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:30 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Change owner for apache log files > > Ronaldy, Franky wrote: > > I have defined the user www and group other in httpd.conf, but the log > > files still owned by root. > > > > Rgds, > > Franky > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dan [mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:15 AM > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Change owner for apache log files > > > > Ronaldy, Franky wrote: > > > >>Hi All, > >> > >>Does anyone know how to change the owner for apache log files > >>(access_log, agent_log, etc..)? My log files always owned by root > >>account. Does the owner of log files depends on who execute apachectl > >>command or I can define somewhere? Thanks. > >> > >>Rgds, > >>Franky > >> > > > > > > Franky - > > > > The files should be owned by whatever user Apache relinquishes it's > > privileges to, specified by httpd.conf's 'User' and 'Group' directives. > > > > Did you not specify these, or did you specify them as root? > > > > Thanks > > -dant > > > > I don't know, I've never really paid that much attention to logs > before... what about setting a sticky bit to the dir? > > Might want to wait for others to respond to this, as this *may* end up > breaking something. I don't know. > > Good luck > -dant > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx