Hmmm... Here is what my directories for the ibay, cgi-bin, html show:
[root@server ibays]# ls -al
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Nov 8 22:34 awstats
[root@server awstats]# ls -al
drwxrwsr-x 5 root shared 4096 Dec 21 22:39 cgi-bin
drwxrwsr-x 3 root shared 4096 Dec 21 21:25 html
[root@server cgi-bin]# ls -al
-rw-rw-rw- 1 www shared 44312 Dec 21 22:35 awstats112002.....txt
-rw-rw-rw- 1 www shared 31209 Dec 21 22:39 awstats122002.....txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root shared 420941 Dec 3 20:54 awstats.pl
-rw-rw-rw- 1 www shared 9318 Dec 21 22:39 dnscachelastup.....txt
Also the perms for my access_log in /var/log/httpd/
[root@server httpd]# ls -al
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Dec 22 01:12 access_log -> access...
All my access logs have the same perms.
I have not modified any of the permissions and it worked out of the box.
Tom