Re: [cobalt-developers] webalizer - missing days

["Zeffie" <cobalt-dev@xxxxxxxx>]

> >on a raq4 with "massive hits" on a site... the logrotation program will
wipe
> >them all away before webalizer ever has a chance....  What I do is...
> >mv /etc/logrotate.d/apache /etc/logrotate.d/zapache
> >and
> >mv /etc/logrotate.onboot/apache /etc/logrotate.onboot/zapache
> >
> >The stats will hicup for a day and to avoid that... well it depends on
your
> >install of webalizer
> >one example would be
> >cp /etc/cron.daily/webalizer.pl /etc/cron.daily/awebalizer.pl
> >
> >then get rid of it after a day or two....
> >
> >Zeffie
> >http://www.zeffie.com/
>
>
> What is considered a "massive" amount of hits on a Raq4r server?  I
> telneted in and typed "man webalizer" in hopes of finding out some
> information but this didn't work.
>
> Even individual sites that only get roughly 100 visits per day (some 500
> pages perhaps) have days missing.  By doing the following:
>
> >mv /etc/logrotate.d/apache /etc/logrotate.d/zapache
> >and
> >mv /etc/logrotate.onboot/apache /etc/logrotate.onboot/zapache
>
>
> what exactly does that do?

It changes the order in which logrotate processess files

> Do I only have to type this once and it'll work

yes

> fine from then on in?  Or is there something I have to change in the
> webalizer configuration?

nope...  However if it is webalizer in a .pkg format... you will most likley
have other problems...  that can result in the loss of all old stats...

I just downloaded the .pkg file and installed it.

Sorry to hear that...  You should be careful where you get your packages
from....

Zeffie
http://www.zeffie.com/