You are here: Foswiki>Tasks Web>Item2472 (12 Dec 2017, GeorgeClark)Edit Attach

Item2472: Clarify that genwebnotify should not be run as root

pencil
Priority: Normal
Current State: Needs Developer
Released In:
Target Release: n/a
Applies To: Extension
Component: BugsContrib
Branches:
Reported By: UweSinha
Waiting For:
Last Change By: GeorgeClark
See the discussion in Foswiki:Support.Question273. Under certain cicumstances genwebnotify, if run with root privileges, can render Foswiki's log files unwritable for the web server user, causing Foswiki to freeze entirely. It should be clarified that root privileges are not only unnecessary, but actually harmful for any scripts which

  1. are run from cron jobs and
  2. write logs to logYYYYMM.txt

ItemTemplate edit

Summary Clarify that genwebnotify should not be run as root
ReportedBy UweSinha
Codebase 1.0.7, 1.0.5
SVN Range
AppliesTo Extension
Component BugsContrib
Priority Normal
CurrentState Needs Developer
WaitingFor
Checkins
TargetRelease n/a
ReleasedIn
Edit  | Attach | Print version | History: r2 < r1 | Backlinks | View wiki text | Edit wiki text | More topic actions
Topic revision: r2 - 12 Dec 2017, GeorgeClark
The copyright of the content on this website is held by the contributing authors, except where stated elsewhere. See Copyright Statement. Creative Commons License    Legal Imprint    Privacy Policy