[Pkg-awstats-devel] EnableLockForUpdate option

[Sergey B Kirpichev]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:42:44PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Haven't looked at the actual implementation but a well-known
> filename in /tmp sounds like a bad idea...
>
> Any well-known-and-writable-by-www-data is probably a bad idea...

Agree.  But we are in process of moving to the scheme with separate
UID
for awstats (see recent discussion in this maillist, related to cron
jobs).

> I can't find a good solution that's compatible with awstats running as
> www-data .... maybe we should just stop supporting the config option
> of supporting "updates on demand" and stop running as www-data (if that
> hasn't happened already, I haven't been keeping up to date unfortunately).

See above.