[Vtigercrm-developers] Ubuntu Server, www-data, crontab and Monolog issue?

[Alan Lord]

Hi all,

Some of you maybe aware that for a while now Ubuntu servers have 
configured the apache user (www-data) to not have access to a shell.

So consequently for a while now, I have usually created a "system" user 
called vtiger, added it to the www-data group and given that user a 
shell. I then use this as the user in the crontab. (I don't like running 
cron jobs as root).

Today I noticed something which I never noticed was a problem before the 
change to Monolog...

If I enable the debug log in config.performance.php, the vtiger cron 
can't run. I see this in my cron log file:

> HP Fatal error:  Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: The stream or file "/var/www/html/vtigercrm/logs/vtigercrm.log" could not be opened in append mode: Failed 
> to open stream: Permission denied

The vtigercrm/logs dir is rwxrwxr-x www-data:www-data and my vtiger user 
is a member of www-data. The vtigercrm.log file however, is created 
rw-r--r--.

So this explains why I can't open the file and I'll find a way to fix 
that, but, the bigger question for me is that this USED to work before 
we switched to Monolog without any issue???

Secondly - the old vtigercrm.log file was chmod'ed to 200 iirc so you 
had to be root to read it. Now anyone can read it. Not sure if that is a 
big deal any more or not but I thought I'd mention it.

Cheers

Al