#1143 Long analysis appears to fail

[Mark Edwards]

I'm trying to set up a periodic webalizer analysis with DNS lookups. If
I choose "Generate Report" from within webmin, my browser times out
after a certain period of time, and the report never seems to be
generated.

A report does get generated at the regular intervals, but only about
3% of the DNS lookups seem to get added to the report.

If I generate a report from the command-line using the same config
as webmin (/usr/local/etc/webalizer.conf) the report gets generated
fine, along with all DNS lookups intact.

What gives?

[Jamie Cameron]

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This is really a browser bug - some (like IE) close the
connection after a certain period of inactivity, causing the
process on the server to be killed as well. The only work-
around is to have the reported generated on schedule by a
cron job, which the module can set up as well.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Actually, this doesn't appear to have anything to do with
the browser. The browser times out, yes, but the webalizer
process actually completes (I didn't realize this at first).
Regardless of how the analysis is done, via the browser or
via cron, DNS lookups are not working properly.

However, as I said, when I run webalizer via the command
line using the same .conf file as webmin is using, the
analysis works fine. Something is preventing webalizer from
properly handling dns lookups when triggered via the webmin
mechanism.

[Jamie Cameron]

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Webmin uses a command like
webalizer -c /path/to/config/file -o /output/dir -p /path/to/log
to create the report. The actual config file path is either the
global config, or a .conf file in /etc/webmin/webalizer
corresponding to the log file. Try that at the command line
and see if it works ..

Make sure that any such file in /etc/webmin/webalizer is
deleted to force the user of the global config when generating
from within webmin.