Hi,

> Any reason to?

Yes, user requires "+x" permission to the directory in order to be able to
open any file(s) inside it. Google/Bing/whatever for "unix permissions",
this is as simple as it gets.

> Nginx works for me flawless on each box with 700 root:root on
> /var/log/nginx, the only problem I found is SIGUSR1, Whatever you agree
> with me or not, nginx shoudn't need perms on its logs dir, because it will
> allow users to use symlink to fetch logs.

This is because:
- on start and reload - master process opens log files before fork() and
worker processes only inherit them,
- on reopen - all processes need to open logs, so workers also need
permission to open log files.

Best regards,
Piotr Sikora < piotr.sikora@frickle.com >


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