Hi Dan. Thanks for responding.
Yes, that's true, the file is owned by the tomcat user. My mod_perl stuff
runs under "apache" (the httpd user) and I have some Perl daemons that run
as root. In Perl, using log4perl, I can set the owner, group, and umask of
the log file for file creation. I have
If they are all the same group, then I would suggest just setting the umask
to 022 or 027.. But let me say I'm not a Unix admin and I'm not a 100% sure
of all the down falls here. I do know that 022 will work I've done some
things with my source code, and others in my group not able to "write" to
Thanks for the input, Dan.
Actually, I am aware of how permissions. The question is how to set
permissions, owner, group on a log file created by FileAppender when it
actually creates the log file.
For the moment, I have solved the problem by using a separate log file for
tomcat.
Daniel Stephe
Ok cool.. I just had a round with our umask and groups being setup
incorrectly. just a mess.
On 3/6/07, stevethames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the input, Dan.
Actually, I am aware of how permissions. The question is how to set
permissions, owner, group on a log file created by Fi
Here's the thing about umask.
In the Unix file system, file permissions is an octal value with one digit
for each user type. When using chmod, these permissions can be set directly
and do not require a leading zero.
chmod 664 file
Each digit represents a user class and each bit within the digi
