Bug 446734 – www-servers/nginx - init script changes owner and mode of /var/log/nginx on each startup/restart

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Coacher 2012-12-10 13:29:15 UTC]

With recent update of nginx initscript with checkpath code mode and owner checks for /var/log/nginx were introduced. I have a custom syslog setup with all logfiles having the same group (not root) so logcheck could read them. Also I don't really want anyone to look into my /var/log/nginx so it has 0750 mode. But with latest version of initscript all of these won't be taken in account and I will forcidly have 0755 dir with root:root perms on EACH restart of nginx. This is wrong.

Please do something with it. Wouldn't it be better to create /var/log/nginx from ebuild during postinstall? Or at least add a simple test check in ebuild like
if [ -d /var/log/nginx ]; then
    checkpath ...
fi


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Coacher 2012-12-10 13:33:35 UTC]

Should be, of course

if [ ! -d /var/log/nginx ]; then
...

[Comment 2 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2012-12-20 08:11:22 UTC]

fixed, thanks

[Comment 3 Coacher 2013-01-21 03:28:06 UTC]

Reopening.

Adding `-q` parameter to checkpath doesn't solve this. Ownership and mode are still changed on every nginx restart. Please add `if` clause.

[Comment 4 Coacher 2013-03-14 20:52:21 UTC]

ping

[Comment 5 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2013-04-25 06:45:18 UTC]

fixed