Public bug reported:
/etc/cron.d/awstats runs the statistics generation cron job with user
"www-data". The cron job needs to access /var/log/apache2/access.log.
$ ls -al /var/log/apache2/access.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 342337 Nov 18 21:36 /var/log/apache2/access.log
$ sudo -u www-data cat /var/log/apache2/access.log
cat: /var/log/apache2/access.log: Permission denied
That is, www-data does not have the permission to access the log file.
Therefore, the user in /etc/cron.d/awstats needs to be "root" or --
probably better -- the log files of apache have to be written with
permission to be read by www-data. The current default configuration --
also tested with the development version of Ubuntu 14.04 -- does not
work.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: awstats (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 18 21:35:19 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-18 (31 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64
(20131016)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: awstats
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: awstats (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy
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/etc/cron.d/awstats: wrong user for cron job
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