Re: [cobalt-users] Log/Webalizer Weirdness...

[Cody Watkins <codyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:24 PM 8/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi All!
>
>I've been cruising the archives for the answer to this, but so far, I
>haven't found it.
>
>I have webalizer installed on my system (I hand-installed it, not knowing
>that there was a lovely RPM out there...D'oh!) and it works fine...I have it
>load the web.log.1.gz for that site and chug all the stats -- so far, so
>good.
>
>What doesn't work well with it is my Log rotation setup. As mentioned by
>John Rood, there is a potential for gaps in the reporting with webalizer and
>the RaQ3's logrotation setup...but I can live with that.  One of my sites
>has the exact gap in reporting he mentioned... But my other site is doing
>something completely new and special, so I'm writing to the list. :)
>
>Every time I check this particular site, web.log's size is just 0.  And,
>web.log.1.gz only contains the results for the last few days.   (Basically,
>it only has the results that should be in web.log). It has dumped my entire
>history for my site by doing this, leaving me with only the last few days.
>Web.log has the proper permissions set, and it exists...rwx--r--r and all...
>Why has the logrotation system stopped writing to web.log?  Why did it dump
>the contents of web.log.1.gz? What can I do to slap things around and make
>them play nice-nice with me again?
>
>Any advice is greatly appreciated.
>
>-Dee Dreslough (dee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)

Try using Webalizer version 2.0.  It is now available on the webalizer site.
It has support for gzipped logs.

Sincerely,
Cody Watkins
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