Item2474: Clarify that actionnotify should not be run as root
Priority: Normal
Current State: Closed
Released In: n/a
Target Release: n/a
See the discussion in
Foswiki:Support.Question273. Under certain circumstances
actionnotify
, 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
- are run from cron jobs and
- write logs to
logYYYYMM.txt