[peruser] Permission denied: mod_rewrite

[Leen Besselink]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:59:23AM -0600, Sean Gabriel Heacock wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 19:52 +0200, Karsten Schmidt wrote:
> > Im testing peruser on my FreeBSD 5.4 box, with apache 2.0.54
> > 
> > everything seems to work fine, but i get this in my error log the first 
> > time i access a site, running as another user than my www user
> > 
> > [crit] (13)Permission denied: mod_rewrite: could not init rewrite log 
> > lock in child
> 
> Yeah, I vaguely recall running into this a while back.  It's trying to
> create a file after the setuid and chroot calls are made, and the user
> apache becomes doesn't have access, and/or the directory doesn't exist
> inside the chroot jail.  If you turn off RewriteLog that goes away,
> although you won't have a rewrite log anymore.
> 
> > also it seems to take around 1 second to start the httpd processes the 
> > first time i access a site
> 
> This is due to the dynamic startup of apache processes.  Eventually I'll
> probably add an option to specify how many processes to start up and
> keep running.  So far none of my users have noticed the delay, though.
> 

What could also be the problem is that peruser might use more getuid, getgid calls and 
Karsten Schmidt uses NFS- or database (SQL/LDAP)- backed PAM or similair ?

Other reasons for slow apache startup could be DNS (if you also manage it's caching DNS-server you might wanna look in the logs, if it's more then normal or slow/whatever).

Those are some things that I could think of.