ooppss... yes, please blame me. it works now!
thanks a lot
kittiwat
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From: "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: multilog problem--quite urgent please
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> On 26 Jul 00, at 14:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Yesterday, a guy from the data center has upgraded a memory on my
> > server, and this morning I discovered a cpu load problem. What I'd
> > figured out is that multilog just can't access /var/log/qmail/* so the
> > supervise has been retrying on and on....
> >
> > I checked the ownership of /var/log/qmail as follow:
> >
> > [root@ns qmail]# ls -al
> > total 960
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 qmaill nofiles 4096 Jul 26 01:30 .
> > drwx------ 9 root root 4096 Jul 23 04:02 ..
>
> That is your problem. Only root can access subdirectories of
> /var/log. Change permissions of /var/log to 711 or 755. (Why are
> you so restrictive on log directory? Sensitive logs are protected as
> files...)