The Webgroup Group

This group isn't required if you're going to run a separate instance of the web-server, running under the remstats user id. However, if you want to use an existing web-server and just tell it to serve the remstats pages as well, it's the easiest clean way to set things up.

The reason it is required is that the graphs images are written to files at run-time. Run-time means here that they are written by whichever user the web-server is running as, often something like 'httpd'. The remstats user needs to be able to re-write the web-pages and create directory trees for the pages and images. In fact, it needs to be able to create the directories that the images go into.

So we create a 'webgroup' group. Let's call it 'xxx' for this explanation. This group has two members: the web-server user and the remstats user, so the line in /etc/groups might look like:

	xxx:x:219:httpd,remstats