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. -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263