I have enabled log rotation to IBM HTTP Server on daily basis. And I have changed log locations to /ihslogs files system. useually I stop/start http server using
sudo /usr/IBM/HTTPServer/bin/apachectl stop
sudo /usr/IBM/HTTPServer/bin/apachectl start

After enable the log rotation I am unable to read access.log and error.log IHS logs owning root access and ihs logs generated with 600 permissions instead of 644 permissions. How can I change the permissions to 644. I asked unix team to change the permissions to 644. They simply changed permissions to 644 using chmod -R 644 ihslogs. After changed the permissions next day IHS generated new logs with 600 permission. How can we resolve this issue.

user and group of this http server is nobody , port no is 80, and AIX 6.1 env.

Is it IHS issue or Unix issue.

Could you please help me on this

 

So... try to adjust UMASK in user profile.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask

i hope it helps.
Leonardo Monteiro

Hi ljmont,

Thank you for the reply.



I've enabled log rotation to application server's (time based) in the same server with same umask logs generated with 644 permission.

-rw-r--r--    1 wasadmin wasadmin        167 May 17 00:00 SystemErr_13.05.18_00.00.00.log
-rw-r--r--    1 wasadmin wasadmin      51237 May 17 23:57 SystemOut_13.05.18_00.00.00.log
-rw-r--r--    1 wasadmin wasadmin        167 May 18 00:00 SystemErr.log
-rw-r--r--    1 wasadmin wasadmin       8148 May 18 03:02 SystemOut.log

Here I have enabled application server logs using "wasadmin"

After log-in to server with my I've switch into to wasadmin that is sudo su - wasadmin


But IHS logs generated with 600 permissions.

-rw-------    1 root     system        73601 May 05 16:59 access_log.2013_05_05_00_00_00
-rw-------    1 root     system       729787 May 11 07:33 error_log.2013_05_11_00_00_00
-rw-------    1 root     system       241049 May 11 07:33 access_log.2013_05_11_00_00_00
-rw-------    1 root     system      2826849 May 12 17:02 error_log.2013_05_12_00_00_00
-rw-------    1 root     system       739304 May 12 17:02 access_log.2013_05_12_00_00_00


Useually I've stopped/started IBM HTTP Server using sudo commands

sudo /usr/IBM/HTTPServer/bin/apachectl stop
sudo /usr/IBM/HTTPServer/bin/apachectl start

my sudo commands in sudoers list given below:

sudo -l

(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/IBM/HTTPServer/bin/apachectl start, /usr/IBM/HTTPServer/bin/apachectl stop, /usr/IBM/HTTPServer/bin/apachectl restart,
    /usr/IBM/HTTPServer/binapachectl graceful
 
(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/su - wasadmin
    (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cp


UMASK value is 027

If I changed umask V,alue IHS will generate log 644 permissions, So which umask value do I need to set?


Thank you,

Regards,

Brahma