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I'm having an issue with AWStats updating its temporary database. I have the call to update the reporting database every hour through launchd, which runs as root. The perl scripts are called, and nothing gets updated. Troubleshooting demonstrated the following warning:

Warning: Failed to rename "/tmp/awstats082013.food.tmp.1641" into "/tmp/awstats082013.food.txt". Write permissions on "awstats082013.food.txt" might be wrong or file might be opened.

The permissions on that file is 777. The permissions on /tmp are also 777. Why AWStats cannot modify that file is really the question. I can do this manually using sudo, but the bash script that is run hourly by launchd shouldn't have to take the sudo -A, nor does it work.

Any advice as to how I can push through this, is appreciated.

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  • or file might be opened. Close Apache, the file is in use, other than that try chown www-data:www-data tmp
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented Aug 5, 2013 at 22:28
  • By what? AWStats is the executable that created it. It's trying to write to the file it has created itself. That's what an update does.
    – Rich_F
    Commented Aug 5, 2013 at 22:32
  • thought you was using the frontend of awstats, php. ,my bad didn't read fully.
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented Aug 5, 2013 at 22:45
  • Actually using both. You can use the perl directly to update the stats, or a link that does the same. Same permissions warning in both instances. AWStats creates that temp db of its own in both cases, and I have no clue why.
    – Rich_F
    Commented Aug 5, 2013 at 22:47
  • Solved: set ownership to root:admin and "sodo launchctl load item.plist". Ya mon. Very happy.
    – Rich_F
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 2:29

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