On the nose! That is exactly what happened.
Something set /var/log to 700. Looking at other servers, it is set to 755.
Thanks, folks. I found the what. Now I need to find how/who.
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----- James Cammarata jimi@sngx.net wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Dan White ygor@comcast.net wrote:
Ah! "ps -ef | grep http" says that root owns the main process, but then apache owns all the child processes.
This still does not explain the behavior in toggling the permissions.
It should continue to work until you bounce httpd again. The permissions are only checked when the file descriptor is opened I believe. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler