Re: [cobalt-users] Strange problems with statistics on Raq4

[Mark Thompson - Mailing Lists <mark-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I've done to get Webalizer to work is to not use it using the default 
package but to have made it so that it processes web.sessionlog instead and 
then to move it to a cron group that runs at 5:30am instead of 4am like the 
other daily cron jobs.

The main reason for doing this is that web.log gets rotated out of 
existance every so often when it gets above the threshold size and if it 
gets pushed out of the way before Webalizer gets to it, you get an almost 
empty day (you get the stuff that happened before 4am.)

web.sessionlog contains only the previous days stats so it runs a lot 
faster too.  If you find that it's not there then you might need to edit 
split_logs and eliminate the "unlink" command that's there (I notice the 
default version of split logs does that but it disappeared with some update 
and then reappeared when I did the recent updates.)

The reason for making a separate 5:30 am group is the log rotating has to 
be complete before webalizer starts so that gives it enough time.

At 3/21/2002 08:10 PM, you wrote:
> 2) Webalizer (PKG-installation) statistics for virtual sites work most of
> the time, but sometimes single days don't show any traffic and some virtual
> sites have entire months or parts of months missing. One virtual site's
> stats simply disappeared for all months prior to the current one. I am
> looking at totally unsystematic failures of statistics everywhere on the
> machine.

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