problem with cron job of Webalizer

problem with cron job of Webalizer

[Miguel González Castaños]

Dear all,

 I have a RH linux box with Apache 1.3.27 with 4 virtual hosts. I have
installed Webalizer and have different access log files in Apache.

 I have a script for executing webalizer for the different virtual
hosts. That script works in the command prompt.

 I have been testing if it was dued to the environment variables, that
werent loaded, but I put on the script a ". /root/.bash_profile "
instruction to avoid that.

 I got a mail when the job is supposed to be done by cron.

 In the access log files of apache, I use rotate logs. The rotate logs
of apache is done daily and before the webalizer cron job is donde.

 What I have seen so far, its that sometimes it works and sometimes it
doesnt. Sometimes the system doesnt log all the accesses in all virtual
hosts (some do work and others dont) and normally if the webalizer
scripts updates fine the stats html files then apache stops logging the
access files and the other way round...

 Anyone could give any ideas of how I could trace the behaviour of the
system?

 Many thanks

 Miguel

Re: problem with cron job of Webalizer

[Leonid Mamchenkov]

Dear Miguel Gonz?lez Casta?os,

Once you wrote about "problem with cron job of Webalizer":
MGlCo>  I have a script for executing webalizer for the different virtual
MGlCo> hosts. That script works in the command prompt.
MGlCo> 
MGlCo>  I have been testing if it was dued to the environment variables, that
MGlCo> werent loaded, but I put on the script a ". /root/.bash_profile "
MGlCo> instruction to avoid that.
MGlCo> 
MGlCo>  I got a mail when the job is supposed to be done by cron.
MGlCo> 
MGlCo>  In the access log files of apache, I use rotate logs. The rotate logs
MGlCo> of apache is done daily and before the webalizer cron job is donde.
MGlCo> 
MGlCo>  What I have seen so far, its that sometimes it works and sometimes it
MGlCo> doesnt. Sometimes the system doesnt log all the accesses in all virtual
MGlCo> hosts (some do work and others dont) and normally if the webalizer
MGlCo> scripts updates fine the stats html files then apache stops logging the
MGlCo> access files and the other way round...
MGlCo> 
MGlCo>  Anyone could give any ideas of how I could trace the behaviour of the
MGlCo> system?

Did you try to run webalizer _before_ you rotate the logs?  It's also a
good idea to measure how much time does it take for your webalizer jobs
to finish.  This will help you to make sure webalizer has enough time
before the logs are taken from it. :)

-- 
Best regards,
  Leonid Mamtchenkov, RHCE
  System Administrator
  Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.

Re: problem with cron job of Webalizer

[Miguel González Castaños]

Hello,

 I am trying to figure out what is going on, and I deactivate webalizer and check
how log rotation was doing and seems that all my logs of my virtual domains are
rotated except "domain4"...Here goes my apache logrotate:

/usr/local/apache/logs/domain1/access.log
/usr/local/apache/logs/domain2/access.log
/usr/local/apache/logs/domain3/access.log
/usr/local/apache/logs/domain4/access.log {
    daily
    rotate 400
    mail mymail@myisp.com
    compress

 prerotate
  /etc/init.d/apache stop
 endscript
 postrotate
  /etc/init.d/apache start
 endscript
}

The domain4 log is the biggest one, dont know if it has something to do with the
problem...

I tried to force logrotate to execute the apache log rotation and dont see
anything wrong...

Many thanks

Miguel




>
> Did you try to run webalizer _before_ you rotate the logs?  It's also a
> good idea to measure how much time does it take for your webalizer jobs
> to finish.  This will help you to make sure webalizer has enough time
> before the logs are taken from it. :)
>
> --
> Best regards,
>   Leonid Mamtchenkov, RHCE
>   System Administrator
>   Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.
>
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