# Error Log Permissions

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-log-permissions/91266>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [April 6, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-log-permissions/91266 "2007-04-06T04:14:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![benni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@benni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benni)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-log-permissions/91266/1 "2007-04-06T04:14:15Z")

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Thanks John for your reply re Radiant Issue Served by Litespeed: \*Tue  
Apr 3  
15:48:22 GMT 2007

\*Trawling though system logs:

/opt/lsws/logs \<= where Litespeed is installed  
cat stderr.log | less

Can’t determine the Home of LiteSpeed Web Server, exit!  
Rails Error: Unable to access log file. Please ensure that  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/log/development.log exists and is chmod 0666.  
The  
log level has been raised to WARN and the output directed to STDERR  
until  
the problem is fixed.  
Rails Error: Unable to access log file. Please ensure that  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/log/development.log exists and is chmod 0666.  
The  
log level has been raised to WARN and the o  
utput directed to STDERR until the problem is fixed.  
Permission denied -  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/tmp/sessions//ruby\_sess.9e2597bce7d4dbdc  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/pstore.rb:290:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/pstore.rb:290:in`transaction’  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session/pstore.rb:71:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session.rb:273:in`initialize’  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action\_controller/cgi\_process.rb:123:in  
`session' /srv/www/radiant/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:155:in`stale\_session\_check!’  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action\_controller/cgi\_process.rb:110:in  
`session' /srv/www/radiant/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1052:in`assign\_shortcuts\_without\_flash’  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action\_controller/flash.rb:140:in  
`assign_shortcuts' /srv/www/radiant/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:424:in`process\_without\_filters’  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:624:in  
`process_without_session_management_support' /srv/www/radiant/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:114:in`sass\_old\_process’  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/vendor/plugins/haml/lib/sass/plugin.rb:117:in  
`process' /srv/www/radiant/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:330:in`process’  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:41:in  
`dispatch’  
/opt/lsws/fcgi-bin/RailsRunner.rb:14  
Permission denied -  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/tmp/sessions//ruby\_sess.49972ac62a52f583

=\> So, I am guessing there is a problem there, all logging has been  
redirected to stderr.log as it doesn’t have permisson to log to  
development.log.

The output said =\> Please ensure that  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/log/development.log exists and is chmod 0666

Firstly: /srv/www/radiant/config/…/log/development.log is not the path  
to  
my radiant log files, it is

=\> /srv/www/radiant/log

/srv/www/radiant/log# ls -al  
total 32  
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-04-05 09:21 .  
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2007-04-05 09:23 …  
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10151 2007-04-05 09:22 development.log  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 2007-04-05 09:16 .keep  
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5599 2007-04-06 01:23 production.log  
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2007-04-05 09:16 server.log  
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-04-05 09:17 .svn

So, according to the stderr.log, should systems logs be where they are  
or in  
/…/config/logs?

Secondly =\> Permission denied -  
/srv/www/radiant/config/…/tmp/sessions//ruby\_sess.49972ac62a52f583

I changed the permissions of /…/tmp using chmod 0666.

Is this the likely cause of this application error I am getting?

cheers, Ben.