Configuring the O/S: File permissions

# ls -ld /home/httpd /etc/httpd \
 /var/log/httpd /etc/logrotate.d/apache
drwxrwsr-x 3 root wwwadmin 1024 Jun 27 12:09 /etc/httpd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wwwadmin  172 Jun 27 12:09 /etc/logrotate.d/apache
drwxrwsr-x 5 root wwwadmin 1024 Jun 27 12:09 /home/httpd
drwxrwsr-x 2 root wwwadmin 1024 Jun 27 12:09 /var/log/httpd

• The daemon will run as user www.
• How can the daemon write its log files?
• It starts life and opens the log files as user root.

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