On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Rob Landrito <rlandr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your suggestions. httpd starts cleanly with nouser and > nogroup fine as long as I'm not trying to pipe logs. If I only try to > pipe access_log and not error_log, httpd starts but no access logs are > created (I'm sending requests to the servers). The only difference I > see in error_log are the following two lines: > > piped log program '/opt/httpd/bin/rotatelogs -fl > /opt/httpd/logs/access_log.%d-%b 86400' failed unexpectedly
Run strace/truss/whatever against a running rotatelogs process before it has to handle an access log entry, see what is happening at syscall level. > [Wed Dec 07 06:08:13 2011] [error] (22)Invalid argument: setting of group > failed Weird. That's from apr_proc_create(), which might be called for a piped logger. The implication seems to be that apr_procattr_user_set() or apr_procattr_group_set() has been called, but I don't see that in 2.2.x. Perhaps this httpd has some custom/vendor patches? Perhaps I didn't look carefully enough at one bit of code or another? > > They pop up a number of times throughout the error_log, presumably > every time it's trying to write to access_log. I should note that I > can run rotatelogs just fine from the command line as nouser or root. > > > 2011/12/6 Jeff Trawick <traw...@gmail.com>: >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Rob Landrito <rlandr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I'm trying to used piped logs as described here: >>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html#piped. The environment is >>> httpd 2.2.11 on sco 6.0.0 (SCO_SV system 5 6.0.0 i386). I'm using >>> User nouser >>> Group nogroup >>> >>> Apache is unable to start, printing the following to stderr on startup: >>> [Tue Dec 06 13:09:59 2011] [error] (22)Invalid argument: setting of >>> group failedBroken Pipe >> >> That's the concatenation of two different error messages. >> >> Switch your error log temporarily to a file instead of to a piped >> logger, and make sure everything starts up cleanly. (It looks like >> you'll have to modify the Group directive.) >> >> Then try using a piped logger for the access log, again with a simpler >> logging mechanism for the error log. >> >> >>> >>> It doesn't seem to matter what program I use on the other end of the >>> pipe. I'm actually trying to use rotatelogs but echo seems to have >>> the same problem. I've tried various setuid tricks just to see if I >>> could pinpoint the issue. I suid'd the rotatelogs binary to root as >>> well as nouser and neither seemed to help. I suspect that this >>> problem is isolated to SCO. Any ideas would be appreciated. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. >>> See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >>> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Born in Roswell... married an alien... >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. >> See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org >> > > > > -- > :wq! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
