Re: [cobalt-developers] webalizer and raq4

[Kul <WebMaster@xxxxxxx>]

Nick Crabtree wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just installed the webalizer package found at
> http://pkg.nl.cobalt.com/ onto a raq4. I did the intial installation about 1
> month ago, the stats have been generated for about 4 days after the
> installation date, and not since. I have tried manually running the
> webalizer.pl from /etc/cron.daily but it still does not generate the stats.
>
> When i manually run webalizer.pl i get ...
>
> [root cron.daily]# ./webalizer.pl
> Error: Can't open log file
> /home/sites/www.aquaticsuperstore.com/logs/web.log
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [384]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [385]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [386]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [387]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [388]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [389]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [395]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [396]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [1250]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [1522]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [2127]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [2781]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [2843]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [3018]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [3472]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [4485]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [5911]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [6645]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [6873]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [7166]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [7350]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [9202]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [9587]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [9633]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [9832]
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field [9961
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks, NIck

Hi Nick,
Your Warnings (listed above) are all just informational messages telling you that a visitor to your site has used the GET method and a long URL was used (probably from a search engine), and webalizer is programmed to only deal with URL's of a certain length!  Basically it is fairly safe to ignore these!

If your raq is very busy, your access logs may be rotating too early (before webalizer is run nightly) and your results will be lost!   Is webalizer being run by cron each night ?  Is cron actually running ?  Have you rebooted after installation ?  Mine do around 4am (Im a Raq3) ?
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Regards,
Kul