For what it's worth, I can't think of any need to ever change
permissions on /var and I certainly would not do it. I will provide any
info you require.
New hardware, new install, all I've done is add a bunch of packages
suitable for a webserver (apache, php, mysql, related packages, etc, and
some admin/log stuff like webalizer).
It must be a direct result of something that happened on Dec 10 2009
because there were no errors for anything in cron.daily the day before.
I suspect the packages I mentioned because the only interesting entries
in my LogWatch for this period were the following:
--------------------- dpkg status changes Begin ------------------------
Installed:
libdb4.5 4.5.20-11
libgeoip1 1.4.4.dfsg-1
webalizer 2.01.10-32.1
Unknown lines:
2009-12-10 10:54:20 startup archives unpack
2009-12-10 10:54:23 configure libdb4.5 4.5.20-11 4.5.20-11
2009-12-10 10:54:23 configure libgeoip1 1.4.4.dfsg-1 1.4.4.dfsg-1
2009-12-10 10:54:23 configure webalizer 2.01.10-32.1 2.01.10-32.1
2009-12-10 10:54:23 startup packages configure
2009-12-10 10:54:23 trigproc libc6 2.7-10ubuntu5 2.7-10ubuntu5
The only other thing I can think of (and that my bash history verifies) is that
I changed the default apache2 user to apache instead of www-data, with
useradd/mod/del+groupadd, and that user's home is /var/www.
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permissions on /var mysteriously changed to 0644
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