Log file owner changing to root -- causing access errors

Hello, and I apologize for the newb question, but I am at a loss.

I have my Redmine instance running under Apache2 w/ Passenger. Periodically, my log/production.log.0 and one other log/production.log.X file will change owner from www-data to root. This causes an access error and Redmine displays an exception. The simple fix is to chown www-data:www-data log/*, until it happens again.

I imagine this is a novice configuration error, but I can't find any help on the matter. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

My config/additional_environment.rb:

# Copy this file to additional_environment.rb and add any statements
# that need to be passed to the Rails::Initializer.  `config` is
# available in this context.
#
# Example:
#
#   config.log_level = :debug
#   ...
#

config.logger = Logger.new('/usr/share/redmine/log/production.log', 5, 1000000)
config.logger.level = Logger::INFO

My script/about:

Environment:
  Redmine version                          2.0.3.stable
  Ruby version                             1.9.3 (x86_64-linux)
  Rails version                            3.2.6
  Environment                              production
  Database adapter                         Mysql2
Redmine plugins:
  redmine_backlogs                         v0.9.26
  redmine_monitoring_controlling           0.1.1
  redmine_work_time                        0.2.4
  wiking                                   0.0.2

Thanks again.

Replies (3)

RE: Log file owner changing to root -- causing access errors - Added by Martin Denizet (redmine.org team member) over 10 years ago

Hi Lucas,
You seem to be using the Debian/Ubuntu Redmine package. I suggest that you problem is linked to logrotate.
Have a look in /etc/logrotate.d/
If you find a rotation file for redmine. Open it a check that the create statement gives the correct permissions to the user running Redmine (www-data?)
Cheers,

RE: Log file owner changing to root -- causing access errors - Added by Lucas Layman over 10 years ago

Hi Martin,

Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately /etc/logrotate.d/ has no configuration related to redmine. There is one for apache2, but I don't know if that is applicable:

/var/log/apache2/*.log {
        weekly
        missingok
        rotate 52
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 640 root adm
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null
        endscript
        prerotate
                if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
                        run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
                fi; \
        endscript
}

Thanks again for your time.
Lucas

RE: Log file owner changing to root -- causing access errors - Added by popy popy 6 months ago

I found out that we have setup fetching changesets in cron with root user (sudo crontab -e).
Changing that job to the normal user solved the issue (crontab -e).

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