Re: [cobalt-developers] AWStats

["William L. Thomson Jr." <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 12:20, njd 76 wrote:
> 
> Can you please tell the difference between "su" and /bin/su" please. I have 
> always been doing "su".

One is relative and one is absolute. Both are the same, it's just one
will work if /bin is not in your PATH env var. So you can almost always
use su, but some shell scripts or programs may require /bin/su. Once
again depending on the PATH env var for the user.

> thanks.
> ND
> 
> 
> >From: "Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] AWStats
> >Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 10:44:34 -0400
> >
> > > On Saturday 17 August 2002 03:46 am, Matt Darnell wrote:
> > > > I tried to install this through the GUI and I got a message saying the
> > > > package was invalid.  Did you isntall it on an XTR?
> > > You can't install an rpm through the GUI
> > > You have to do it in a shell session.
> > > ssh to your server.
> > > # get superuser (root) paths
> > > su -
> > > wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/awstats/awstats-4.1-1.noarch.rpm
> > > rpm -i awstats-4.1-1.noarch.rpm
> > > rm awstats-4.1-1.noarch.rpm
> > > exit
> > > exit
> > > Gerald Waugh
> >
> >thanks Gerald
> >
> >ok.. couple notes here...
> >first... always /bin/su or /bin/su -
> >second.  You should understand that this only installs the needed files in
> >/opt  It will not run around and make stats for all the sites and put
> >.htaccess files where needed...  you will have to make your own cobalt
> >script for that....  I was going to do this a while back but couldn't... it
> >looks like I might be able to work around the previous problems.  ? when I
> >get time :)  I have been a fan of awstats for a long time.
> >
> >Zeffie
> >http://www.zeffie.com/
> >
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William L. Thomson Jr.
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