Re: [webmin-l] Webalizer Troubles

[John H. <web...@ew...>]

Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 11/Nov/2006 12:04 John Hinton wrote ..
>   
>> Jamie Cameron wrote:
>>     
>>> The only other thing I can think of is deleting the webalizer.hist and
>>>       
>> webalizer.current files before generating the report, to ensure it is totally
>> re-parsed..
>>     
>>> Also, in your webalizer.conf file for this log (found under /etc/webmin/webalizer
>>>       
>> or at /etc/webalizer.conf), try setting the FoldSeqErr directive to yes,
>> just in case you have some out-of-order log lines.
>>     
>>> If that doesn't work, I am out of ideas, sorry. This must be some oddity
>>>       
>> in Webalizer itself, like the old bug that once caused it to stop parsing
>> logs after some date around october 2001 !
>>     
>>>  - Jamie
>>>   
>>>       
>> Jamie,
>>
>> I've had what appears to be some timing issues with Webalizer/Logrotate
>> using the standard Virtualmin setup. It seems that particularly on the
>> first of the month.. and then particularly if the first is a Sunday...
>> It seems like I set the logrotate timing back, giving Webalizer more 
>> time to finish. It's been a while.. a year or so since I had to mess 
>> with this. Just passing along some information.
>>     
>
> Was the problem that Virtualmin rotated away the log files before
> Webalizer could process them? Or that both webalizer and log rotation
> were running at the same time?
>
>  - Jamie
>   
I believe that webalizer couldn't get done before logrotate started... 
something that might only happen when you have a couple of hundred 
vhosts with a large number of visits per day. I never really paid 
attention to what set the timing.. the OS or Webmin/Virtualmin.

John