diff --git a/doc/Installation/Installation-(Debian-Ubuntu).md b/doc/Installation/Installation-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
index bda460578..e07ac9bd2 100644
--- a/doc/Installation/Installation-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
+++ b/doc/Installation/Installation-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ First, create and chown the `rrd` directory and create the `logs` directory:
 
     mkdir rrd logs
     chown -R librenms:librenms /opt/librenms
-    chown www-data:www-data logs
     chmod 775 rrd
 
 > NOTE: If you're not running Ubuntu or Debian, you will need to change `www-data` to the user and group which run the Apache web server.
diff --git a/doc/Installation/Installation-(RHEL-CentOS).md b/doc/Installation/Installation-(RHEL-CentOS).md
index 366bfd61f..b899aa242 100644
--- a/doc/Installation/Installation-(RHEL-CentOS).md
+++ b/doc/Installation/Installation-(RHEL-CentOS).md
@@ -265,12 +265,6 @@ First, create and chown the `rrd` directory and create the `logs` directory
     mkdir rrd logs
     chown -R librenms:librenms /opt/librenms
     chmod 775 rrd
-
-    # For HTTPd (Apache):
-    chown apache:apache logs
-
-    # For Nginx:
-    chown nginx:nginx logs
 ```
 
 > If you're planing on running rrdcached, make sure that the path is also chmod'ed to 775 and chown'ed to librenms:librenms.
diff --git a/doc/Installation/Installation-Lighttpd-(Debian-Ubuntu).md b/doc/Installation/Installation-Lighttpd-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
index b1150b05f..ed4889813 100644
--- a/doc/Installation/Installation-Lighttpd-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
+++ b/doc/Installation/Installation-Lighttpd-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ First, create and chown the `rrd` directory and create the `logs` directory
 
     mkdir rrd logs
     chown -R librenms:librenms /opt/librenms
-    chown www-data:www-data logs
     chmod 775 rrd
 
 > NOTE: If you're planing on running rrdcached, make sure that the path is also chmod'ed to 775 and chown'ed to librenms:librenms.
diff --git a/validate.php b/validate.php
index 6bb3f6047..13db33efd 100755
--- a/validate.php
+++ b/validate.php
@@ -104,8 +104,7 @@ if (class_exists('Net_IPv6') === false) {
 if (isset($config['user'])) {
     $tmp_user = $config['user'];
     $tmp_dir = $config['install_dir'];
-    $tmp_log = $config['log_dir'];
-    $find_result = rtrim(`find $tmp_dir \! -user $tmp_user -not -path $tmp_log`);
+    $find_result = rtrim(`find $tmp_dir \! -user $tmp_user`);
     if (!empty($find_result)) {
         // This isn't just the log directory, let's print the list to the user
         $files = explode(PHP_EOL, $find_result);