Re: [webmin-l] [1.320] VirtualMin (333)

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 2/Feb/2007 09:02 Joaquim Homrighausen wrote ..
> Found it.. under server templates. The selection "pop-up" did not, however,
> work. But entering "nobody" manually worked. Final remaining problem for
> me: the logs directory needs different handling, or rather the log files.
> I set AWSTATS to truncate/purge the log files after successful parse/update.
> I've told WM/VM to write the log files via a program to avoid problem with
> missing directory. But although the log file directory has proper permissions,
> the log files themselves are -rw-r--r and root.root, which means that the
> "wwwuser" (nobody, in my case) cannot purge/write to them, and nor can
> awstats.

Usually the truncation of log files in done on a Virtualmin system by logrotate.
Any domain for which Apache is enabled should have an entry in /etc/logrotate.conf
or /etc/logrotate.d/ to rotate it's log files. That way AWstats doesn't have to
worry about it ..

 - Jamie