Re: [cobalt-users] Logrotate problem

[Carrie Bartkowiak <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:31:48 +0200, A. Lantink mumbled something like:
>>How can i solve this. Is it possible to run webalizer first, and
>>then logrotate. This would be the best solution.

That's part of the solution. Out of the box, Webalizer uses the logs themselves as a history and rebuilds the data *completely* every night. So what you want to do is get webalizer to run before logrotate, *and* set Webalizer to incremental mode, which will cause it to keep its own history files rather than relying on the logs for them.

1. Go into /etc/cron.daily and rename webalizer.pl to awebalizer.pl; for good measure rename logrotate to zlogrotate. Things in the cron folders are processed alphabetically.
mv webalizer.pl awebalizer.pl
mv logrotate zlogrotate
2. Open /etc/webalizer.conf and find the line that deals with Incremental, turn it to ON and uncomment it. In the section below it, give your history files a name (the default is fine) and uncomment it as well.

Then just for good measure, to get a head start on today's logs, go back to /etc/cron.daily and run webalizer manually one time.
/webalizer.pl

HTH
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CarrieB
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