wwwoffle + ht://dig : cronjob doesn't have permissions to write its log

[Maxime Ritter]

Binary package hint: wwwoffle

On Ubuntu 10.10 : I tried to install both wwwoffle and ht://dig. Nearly perfect integration of both packages... except... the cronjob never worked. Why ? Let's try to run it manually.

root@rakia:/etc/cron.daily# su proxy -s /bin/sh -c /usr/share/wwwoffle/search/htdig/wwwoffle-htdig-incr
/usr/share/wwwoffle/search/htdig/wwwoffle-htdig-incr: 19: cannot create /var/log/wwwoffle-htdig.log: Permission denied

It can write its log, it doesn't have permission to write/create the file. Ok, let's fix it :

root@rakia:/etc/cron.daily# touch /var/log/wwwoffle-htdig.log
root@rakia:/etc/cron.daily# chown proxy /var/log/wwwoffle-htdig.log

root@rakia:/etc/cron.daily# su proxy -s /bin/sh -c /usr/share/wwwoffle/search/htdig/wwwoffle-htdig-incr

Oh, it's perfectly running now. The ubuntu package script should also create an empty log file with the correct permission.