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access.log permission for awstats

Asked by dinar qurbanov

it says
Error: Couldn't open server log file "/var/log/apache2/access.log" : Permission denied

access.log owner and group are: root and adm.

why there is no "adm" group in "users and groups"->"group settings"?

what should i do? from what username awstats runs? i run from browser then it is www-data i think. how to give www-data group permission to read access.log.

i do not understand groups in linux. why any file has permissions for only one group?

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hello

From the error message that is saying do not allow anyone (except root and anyone in the adm group) to traverse down this folder. This is probably why your awstats generation was failing (unless of course you ran it as root). Allow anyone to traverse down with the following:

$ sudo chmod 755 /var/log/apache2

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dinar qurbanov (qdinar) said : 		#2

i knew
that way.
i wanted more correct way.

offtopic:
this text area is small in opera 9.27. (correct please css to support opera.) i should write this to launchpad bugs.

maybe awstats_configure.pl would correct that permission. i have not run it. but maybe it already had run during .deb installation. do you know? i am now looking at its code a little.

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dinar qurbanov (qdinar) said : 		#3

i am looking at awstats_configure.pl's code.

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Sharar Ravitz (jewfro-macabbi) said : 		#4

You can also:

sudo chown /var/log/apache2/acces.log www-data

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