Re: [cobalt-users] Webalizer Raq3 Logs

[Jens Kristian Søgaard <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The /home/sites/www.domain.com/logs/web.log read yesterday as zerok
> And no updated webalizer pages, still showing the day before's
> Today, the webalizer files have started afresh, and have forgotten the
rest of January completely.
> As you can imagine - unhappy customer.

> Does anyone know why this might have occurred?

Yes, it's a common problem with Cobalts PKG file for Webalizer.

> Can I get the logs back?

Well, you can unpack the gz file with this command:

gunzip web.log.1.gz

And then run webalizer manually on the file.

> What is the web.log.1.gz file (I know it is an archive of the logs)

It's yesterdays logs compressed.

> Periodically, each site's web.log is archived into web.log.1.gz
> Is this one permanent?

No, the compressed file is also rotated when it comes too large.

Normally, the Cobalt system sets off a maximum of 10% of the site quota for
logfiles.

> What does Webalizer do? Does it keep its own seperate log files as well as
the graphs.

It keeps a "summarized datafile" (i.e. not all information from the logs,
but some statistical info which will enable it to show the desired graphs
and data).

If you're interested, we offer a Webalizer PKG that do not have this problem
for 25$. Please contact me offlist by email, if you want more information.

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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
http://www.mermaidconsulting.com/