Bug 17823 – Log file created as root:root, server cannot write to it and exits

Bug 17823 - Log file created as root:root, server cannot write to it and exits

Summary:

Log file created as root:root, server cannot write to it and exits

Status:	NEW

Product:	Logitech Media Server
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Misc
Version:	7.7.1
Platform:	PC Linux (other)

Importance:	-- normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Unassigned bug - please assign me!

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Reported:	2011-12-17 10:32 UTC by John Stimson
Modified:	2011-12-17 10:32 UTC (History)
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Description John Stimson 2011-12-17 10:32:40 UTC

I am starting the server from the root account, with options "--user slim --group slim --daemon --logfile /home/slimserver/slimserver.log".

/home/slimserver is owned by slim:slim

/usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver has been recursively chowned to slim:slim before the operations described below.

If /home/slimserver/slimserver.log does not exist on startup, it gets created with owner root and group root.

Then the server exits because it cannot write to the log file because it is running as user slim.

A missing log file should really be created by the server with owner and group settings that the server will be running under.

The error produced on the console is: 
Can't call method "log" on an undefined value at /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/CPAN/Log/Log4perl/Appender.pm line 189.


ALSO, it seems that when the server copies or installs some of the perl modules within the logitechmediaserver directory, those are created with inaccessible permissions as well.  The server exits with this message in the log file:

Slim::Music::TitleFormatter::init (42) Warning: Can't locate Slim/Schema/Track.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/src/Audio/squeezeboxserver-7.5.1-30836/Cache/InstalledPlugins /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/CPAN/arch/5.10/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/CPAN/arch/5.10/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/CPAN/arch/5.10.1/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/CPAN/arch/5.10.1/i486-linux-thread-multi/auto /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/CPAN/arch/5.10/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/CPAN/arch/5.10/i486-linux-thread-multi/auto /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/CPAN/arch/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/lib /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/CPAN /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735 /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735 /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/local/src/Audio/logitechmediaserver-7.7.1-33735/Slim/Music/TitleFormatter.pm line 42.

Once I do a recursive chown on the logitechmediaserver directory, the server runs successfully.