i get errors like:
"Specified upload directory, /usr/local/geeklog/public_html/images/articles exists but is not writable"

all the files in /usr/local geeklog have rwx permission via "find /usr/local/geeklog -exec chmod a+rwx {} ;

the check.php gives me: (repeated for each directory tested)

Testing logs directory /usr/local/geeklog/logs/ ...
Could not open error.log and access.log for writing.
Please check that you have set the logs directory and the files error.log and access.log in that directory to chmod 775.
Current permissions for logs: 777
Current permissions for error.log: 777
Current permissions for access.log: 777

the files are owned by apache (the process that owns httpd)
what am I missing here?

figured it out.

Note for those using SElinux on Fedora Core 3 or 4: the http demon has it's own policy, httpd_selinux. You have to set the files to have this context or the httpd won't be able to write to them no matter what the standard unix permissions are.

For total newbies -- like me....

see http://www.geeklog.net/docs/install.html#corrupted

Specifically: chown -R webuser:webuser /path/to/geeklog
Where webuser = apache