Re: [cobalt-users] Removing the ~ (tilde)

["Chris Calabrese" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I know very little about the package that creates a ~stats directory for
> webalizer reports.  If you need to know where to make changes to it I
can't
> help.  Personally, I put mine in a /stats/ directory and I use a shell
> script called from cron to generate the reports, set the ownership of the
> directory to root:root, set the permissions, etc.  It prevents anyone
> associated with the site from touching the webalizer files.  I haven't
used
> FP in a long time, but I suspect that solves the FP problems mentioned
> on-list over the years.  On other boxes I've setups stats to run off a
> separate site (stats.domain.tld) with directories for each virtual site.

Hi Steve.

If you try to publish with FrontPage (to a RaQ 4 at least) and any of the
files existing in the web directory you're publishing to are set as owned by
anything but "nobody," FrontPage will generate an error saying something
like "Can't set permissions on xyz" and refuse to publish. There are ways
around that, but I don't want to create a big problem to solve a small one.

If there's no way to access the domain.com/~stats directory without the
tilde I'll just live with it; as I said in a previous message it's a purely
cosmetic issue. I was just hoping there was a quick line I could add to
srm.conf or somewhere to take care of it, but it looks like that may not be
the case.

~ Chris Calabrese