On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:46:12 +0100
Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 09:37:08AM -0400, Viaduct Lists wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> > [Wed Jul 12 06:08:41 rich@neb /var/log/nginx] nginx -t
>
> If you were running this command as "root", would that prompt say
> "root@neb" and end with a # ?
>
> > nginx: the configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
> > syntax is ok nginx: [emerg] open() "/var/run/nginx.pid" failed (13:
> > Permission denied)
>
> That might relate to permissions on /, /var, or /var/run, instead of
> on /var/run/nginx.pid.
>
> But still: from what you've shown, there is no indication that user
> "rich" has the necessary permissions.
>
> Good luck with it,
>
>
From FreeBSD 11.0
f
/var
drwxr-xr-x 28 root wheel 512 Jul 12 08:00 var

/var/run
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 1024 Jul 13 03:01 run

/usr/local/www
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Jun 18 04:13 www

Contents of /usr/local/www
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jun 10 00:19 .well-known
drwxr-xr-x 2 root www 512 Jun 12 01:16 acme
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 25 Jun 18 04:13 nginx
-> /usr/local/www/nginx-dist dr-xr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Jun 18
04:13 nginx-dist

Contents of /usr/local/www/nginx-dist/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 537 Jun 18 04:12 50x.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1 Jun 18 04:12
EXAMPLE_DIRECTORY-DONT_ADD_OR_TOUCH_ANYTHING -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel
612 Jun 18 04:12 index.html drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 9 07:00
<mydomain.com>

However the nginx process is owned by www:
823 www 1 20 0 28552K 7060K kqread 0:01 0.00% nginx





/var/run/ngin.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4 Jul 12 08:00 nginx.pid
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