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libapache-mod-evasive package

Unusable on Ubuntu Hardy when /tmp is not writable

Bug #379318 reported by Paul Drain on 2009-05-22

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libapache-mod-evasive (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Using 1.10.1-1 on Hardy with a secured /tmp directory on a shared hosting provider, this module gives me:

[crit] [client x.x.x.x] mod_evasive: Could not open logfile /tmp/dos-x.x.x.x: Permission denied.

This happens when the directory is either protected by a kernel patch (eg. grsecurity) or when it is simply "chattr +s /tmp" 'd

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Paul Drain (pd) wrote on 2009-05-22:

This, unfortunately also happens when the /tmp directory is simply unwritable by the www-data user.

Attached is a patch which moves the default log creation directory to /var/cache/apache2, which is actually owned by the www-data user.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-02:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in libapache-mod-evasive (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote on 2015-01-06:

This is the correct fix for this issue, incidentally. And because the failure mode is a bit confusing, a reminder that you can use

sudo -u www-data touch <doslogdir>/.test

to verify the directory permissions are correctly set up.

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