[horde] Horde logging. Syslog options

[Simon Brereton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: horde-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:horde-
> bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Simon Brereton
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: horde-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:horde-
> > bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Vilius Šumskas Sveiki,
> >
> > Thursday, September 29, 2011, 12:29:07 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > >> This is almost certainly a filesystem permsissions, or webserver
> > >> configuration issue. If you are *sure* that the directory/file
> > >> permissions are ok, then check for server restrictions like
> > >> open_basedir or similar.  You can also try a path in the same
> > >> directory as the apache log and see if that helps.
> >
> > > When you write the emails it's like a veil lifting from my eyes -
> > and
> > > I go aha, that'll work!  Only it doesn't..
> >
> > > Horde_Log_Handler_Stream: "/var/log/apache2/horde/horde4.log"
> > cannot be opened with mode "a+"
> >
> >
> > > Vilius - changing it to /tmp/horde4.log does work! :)   Even the
> > > sync.log is filling up (another thread brewing there).
> >
> > > Is there something I can change to allow it to log
> /var/log/horde/?
> >
> > At  first you need to know what user your Apache/PHP runs on. At
> least
> > here,  under  RedHat  it  is  "apache".  Note that usually Apache
> logs
> > itself   are  written under different user - "root". Check the user
> > of /var/log/php.log if you have
> > one to write global PHP errors to. Also check "ps aux |grep httpd"
> > for the  user.  If  this  doesn't  help, check your distribution
> > manual or write  to  their mailing list. When you know a user it's
> > just a matter of chown 'user' /var/log/horde (or chgrp).
> >
> >
> > If  this  still  doesn't  work  then as Michael said it is server
> > restrictions in effect.
> 
> Gah!
> 
> Apache is running with user www-data..
> 
> mail:~# ps aux |grep apache
> root     19179  0.0  1.1 386952 23756 ?        Ss   15:30   0:00
> /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
> www-data 19186  0.0  2.3 418616 46556 ?        S    15:30   0:00
> /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
> 
> So, I changed the owner and permissions
> mail:~# ls /var/log/horde/horde4.log
> -rwxrw---- 1 www-data www-data 1.2K Sep 29 15:33
> /var/log/horde/horde4.log
> 
> And still it won't log there.
> 
> I can't find anything about open_basedir that would suggest it's the
> problem.
> mail:~# grep -ir open_basedir /var/log/apache2/* mail:~# grep -ir
> open_basedir /etc/apache2/* mail:~# grep -ir open_basedir /etc/php5/*
> /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini:; open_basedir, if set, limits all file
> operations to the defined directory
> /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini:;open_basedir = /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini:;
> open_basedir, if set, limits all file operations to the defined
> directory /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini:;open_basedir =
> /etc/php5/cli/php.ini:; open_basedir, if set, limits all file
> operations to the defined directory
> /etc/php5/cli/php.ini:;open_basedir =
> 
> There's no php.log (although I suppose I can turn that on somehow).
> This is Debian squeeze - anyone have any ideas?  Would a symlink from
> /tmp/horde4.log to /var/log/horde/horde4.log work?
> 
> Simon

I give up.  It's working now.  Even though I restarted apache every time I changed something I suspect and I don't quite know how that the stop/start was necessary.

I appreciate all the help and advice.  Especially the hand-holding with syslog (which I'm no confident enough in).

Back to my original problem...

Simon