Re: [cobalt-users] Webalizer - logrotate - missing days

["Jelmer Jellema" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> For a long time I've notice that sites are missing days but now I have a
> larger site that never gets processed.  I've narrowed this down to the
> logfile being rotated away before Webalizer gets ahold of it.  I could
just
> make the threshold for logrotate a lot higher but it would still get
> rotated away every so often.
>
> Has anyone found a good solution for this?  I've searched the archives
here
> and found someone who suggested manually doing this for sites that I care
> to know about.
>
> It seems like the problem is that Webalizer and logrotate are run in the
> same daily cron cycle simultaneously at 4:02 am.  I would just run
> logrotate an hour later but I'm not sure whether logrotate needs to be run
> to split the logfiles first.
>

1. move the webalizer.pl script out of the cron.daily or where is it to
somewhere else
2. Change /etc/logrotate.d/apache to add the script in the access prerotate
, after split_logs, like:

/var/log/httpd/access {
    prerotate
        /usr/local/sbin/split_logs web < /var/log/httpd/access
        /usr/local/myscripts/webalizer.pl    <== **added**
    endscript
    missingok
    postrotate
        /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
    daily
}

This way it will run after the new vsite logs have been created, but before
they are gzipped by logrotate.

Hope this helps, Jelmer
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