Change defaults to run Apache as www-data and log to /var/log/

I believe (but am not positive) that this is also needed for offline transaction uploading, as to my knowledge that writes actual files that opensrf perm users would need to read later.

> I believe (but am not positive) that this is also needed for offline
> transaction uploading, as to my knowledge that writes actual files that
> opensrf perm users would need to read later.

I think since those are created by CGI scripts and not Apache modules,
we could use SUID or somesuch for them.

-- Jason

I concur in your belief that offline circ uploads would have to be handled as well.

Vandelay file uploads should be writable by opensrf as well. Files are uploaded via mod_perl and later deleted by drones. Though, we could change the code, of course. They don't have to be deleted in real time by the drones.

I just happened to notice this bug while searching for something else and I agree it's the way to go (though I don't have strong feelings about where it's logged). The way I've always handled this was to change the necessary directories (/openils/var/data/offline and /openils/var/data/vandelay now that /tmp is a bad idea) to be owned by opensrf:www-data and make them group writable.

If no one sees any reason to avoid doing this I can look into putting a docs change branch together.