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I am running redmine on Ubuntu, and I am running it using sudo.
If I try to run as my redmine user, I get permission errors on the log file.
Is this safe? Should I be concerned?
You should be careful when running any sort of web application as root. Personally, I would not recommend it.
If permissions problems on the logfile are your only problems, the better solution would be to alter the permissions of the log files/folders. Make sure the log files belong to the user account that Redmine is running as (or have group write permissions and belong to the same group). You might have to use
sudoto change those permissions, but it is much safer than running a web application as root.