Comment 8 for bug 1252467

I encountered this bug when updating from 14.04 to 16.04.
I started with Mike’s work-around, but had to change it a bit.

First of all the awstats user is created with a new dedicated group awstats, which I did not want. So I used:

useradd -g www-data -G adm awstats

I also had to allow awstats to create new files:

chown -R awstats:www-data /var/lib/awstats