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patogen

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Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 86

lighttpd permission denied

I'm having troubles starting lighttpd after kernel upgrade. Doing:

$ /etc/rc.d/lighttpd start
2008-10-20 19:44:30: (log.c.84) opening errorlog '/var/log/lighttpd/error.log' failed: Permission denied
2008-10-20 19:44:30: (server.c.888) Opening errorlog failed. Going down.

$ ls /var/log/lighttpd
total 84K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4.0K 2008-10-20 19:39 ./
drwxr-xr-x 8 root   root   4.0K 2008-10-20 00:02 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-10-20 00:02 access.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-10-12 00:02 access.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-10-06 00:02 access.log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-09-28 00:02 access.log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody  72K 2008-10-19 04:16 access.log.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-10-20 00:02 access-ssl.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-10-12 00:02 access-ssl.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-10-06 00:02 access-ssl.log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-09-28 00:02 access-ssl.log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-09-22 00:02 access-ssl.log.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-10-20 19:39 error.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-10-20 00:02 error-ssl.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-10-12 00:02 error-ssl.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-10-06 00:02 error-ssl.log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-09-28 00:02 error-ssl.log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody    0 2008-09-22 00:02 error-ssl.log.4

I have no idead on how to solve this problem or how to start, I tried to do a bit of googling, but I came out empty. Any ideas?

Edit: Changed topic to a slightly less bad one.

Last edited by patogen (2008-10-20 17:52:00)

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daf666

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 470

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Re: lighttpd permission denied

are you not root?

patogen

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Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 86

Re: lighttpd permission denied

Yes, I'm root (via sudo, and I'm in /etc/sudoers). The same applies if I use su to go to my root account and try to start lighttpd.

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suolx

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From: Finland, Oulu

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 29

Re: lighttpd permission denied

see /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf if the daemon is run with user "http"...if so then try "chown -R http:http /var/log/lighttpd/"

patogen

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Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 86

Re: lighttpd permission denied

see /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf if the daemon is run with user "http"...if so then try "chown -R http:http /var/log/lighttpd/"

Thank you, this solved the problem. I wonder why permission were changed or what caused this on new kernel. But it is solved now anyway, so that is nice!

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