[ale] Grepping on the access_log

[Patman]

Strider, 

Thank you!  After I chmod 755 all the directories above the access_log,
the perl script greps perfectly!  Thanks again! 

Pat

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Strider Centaur wrote:
> 
>     Does the user have Directory Permissions?  Setting a files permissions does
> not help you if the user does not have permission to access the directory and all
> the directories above it.  Linux/Unix permission are inherited ( I believe that's
> what they call it ) from the parent directories.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Patman wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if I was doing anything wrong.  I can't seem to grep on
> > my webserver's access_log (/var/log/httpd/access_log) if I'm logged in as
> > a non-root user, even though I've set the file's permissions to 755.  Its
> > owner/group is still root/root.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > I'm trying to execute a perl script from a webpage to grep the access_log
> > and count the number of time a certain directory has been accessed.  When
> > I run the script as root, it works wonderfully (Thanks, Jenn T!), but when
> > the script is run from the webpage, or any non-root user, it does't work
> > because the script is getting a "permission denied" message.
> >
> > Amy I missing some step or is it just not possible?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Pat
> >
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