I removed all log files and the web interface stopped I have only a temp fix.

smokingwheels

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What is the correct file permissions to it put back?
Could proxmox do this by default at system startup?


mkdir -p /var/log/pveproxy
chown root:adm /var/log/pveproxy
chmod 777 /var/log/pveproxy
touch /var/log/pveproxy/access.log
touch /var/log/pveproxy/error.log
chown root:adm /var/log/pveproxy/access.log /var/log/pveproxy/error.log
chmod 777 /var/log/pveproxy/access.log /var/log/pveproxy/error.log

systemctl restart pveproxy
systemctl restart pvedaemon
 
On my systems everything belongs to www-data:
Code:
root@pvem:~# ls -Al /var/log/ | grep pvep
drwx------   2 www-data www-data              10 Apr  6 00:38 pveproxy

root@pvem:~# ls -Al /var/log/pveproxy/
total 31616
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data 33870855 Apr  6 14:31 access.log
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data 59659746 Apr  6 00:38 access.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data  3343224 Apr  5 00:06 access.log.2.gz