[CentOS] access to httpd logs

[Matt Hyclak]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:07:20PM -0500, James Pifer enlightened us:
> I need to enable some access to the httpd logs over ftp so they can be
> analyzed by another application to get a report. I used to do this on
> Windows NT before replacing the server with CentOS. 
> 
> Thanks to help from another thread I have an ftp server enabled on the
> web server. I thought the easiest thing to do would be to create an id
> for the application to connect with, then provide a symlink to the logs
> in that generic user's home directory. 
> 
> The problem is the logs are owned by root. How can I make them readable
> by this generic id without completely compromising security? Plus, as
> the logs rotate this id will still need access. 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

Have a cron job running as root that copies the necessary files someplace
that your special id can get to, and chown them to the special id.

Serve this location via ftp.

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Matt Hyclak
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