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.

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in 
the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

----- James Cammarata <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Dan White <[email protected]> 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.
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