Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#1176 closed defect (fixed)
nginx changes ownership of /var/log/nginx/error.log even if error_log is configured to syslog
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | documentation | Version: | 1.11.x |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| uname -a: | Linux web4 3.13.0-106-generic #153-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 6 15:44:32 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux | ||
| nginx -V: |
nginx version: nginx/1.11.7
built with OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 TLS SNI support enabled configure arguments: --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now' --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --with-debug --with-pcre-jit --with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-threads --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_geoip_module --add-module=/home/user/NGINX/nginx-1.11.7/debian/modules/nginx-echo --add-module=/home/user/NGINX/nginx-1.11.7/debian/modules/naxsi/naxsi_src |
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Description
nginx.conf:
... user www-data; error_log syslog:server=unix:/dev/log,nohostname,facility=local7,tag=nginx_error_log,severity=info; ...
After receiving SIGUSR1 nginx changes ownership of /var/log/nginx/error.log from syslog to www-data, breaking syslog ability to write to this file.
I think this behavior is unexpected. It should be changed(do not touch files not mentioned in config) or at least documented here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html in section "Rotating Log-files".
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Change History (9)
follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 8 years ago
| Component: | nginx-core → documentation |
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comment:2 by , 8 years ago
Replying to mdounin:
It probably worth documenting that specified default error log is always used at global level if there are no other file-based logs configured.
Is there any way to propose documentation change via github or something like that? I'd like to help
comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Documentation is available in the Mercurial repo here:
http://hg.nginx.org/nginx.org
You can propose changes much like to nginx itself, see Contributing Changes.
by , 8 years ago
| Attachment: | docs.patch added |
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comment:5 by , 8 years ago
I unsubscribed from nginx-devel@…, please write updates to this ticket.
P.S. Anybody alive here?
comment:8 by , 8 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
As you can see from the
nginx -Voutput,/var/log/nginx/error.logis the defaulterror_logfile. It is still used in your case as there are no error logs configured with logging to a file (only a syslog one), and nginx creates it / changes ownership as appropriate.It probably worth documenting that specified default error log is always used at global level if there are no other file-based logs configured.