Apache and suexec issue that wont let me run my python script

[Carlos Nepomuceno]

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> From: as at sci.fi
> Subject: Re: Apache and suexec issue that wont let me run my python script
> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 18:20:00 +0300
> To: python-list at python.org
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> Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> [code]
>> root at nikos [/home/nikos/www/cgi-bin]# chmod g+w /var/log/httpd/suexec.log
>> root at nikos [/home/nikos/www/cgi-bin]# ls -l /var/log/httpd/suexec.log
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 1 02:52 /var/log/httpd/suexec.log
>> [/code]
>>
>>
>> and still iam receiving the same error.....
>
> What did you hope to accomplish with this second chmod? Nobody is in the
> root group except root. I hope. My guess based on very minimal Googling
> on the topic is you should change the group of /var/log/httpd/suexec.log
> to apache.
>
> Then again, I have no idea why you have both
> /usr/local/apache/logs/suexec_log and /var/log/httpd/suexec.log, but the
> former apparently has some data in it and the latter does not so
> changing permissions on /var/log/httpd/suexec.log may not help...

'/var/log/httpd' is the default place for the Red Hat and CentOS installation of httpd.

'/usr/local/apache/logs' is the default directory of the Apache httpd installation.

httpd has probably been upgraded by 'make install'.

> Oh, apparently suexec prints its config if you run suexec -V, so include
> that output if you still have problems.
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