slr wrote:
> 
> no apache is run  as root.  and for some reason the user for logrotate is
> trying to access the root profile, and this may be happening because root
> starts apache.

If this is true, then it is really bad to run httpd as root. This gives
a CGI full access to the system.

On Debian in my /etc/apache/httpd.conf
 
# If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run   
# httpd as root initially and it will switch.

# User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
#  On SCO (ODT 3) use User nouser and Group nogroup
#  On HPUX you may not be able to use shared memory as nobody, and the
#  suggested workaround is to create a user www and use that user.

User www-data
Group www-data

Hope this helps,
Eric