CRON Job

tommytomato · 09-12-2004, 05:13 AM

Can any one help me please. I've been on this for a few days now, read a ton of pages but i'm realy foxed on this one, unless i'm missing some thing.

OS if fedora core 2 with awstats 6.1

does this look right ?

0 2 * * * /usr/local/awstats/tools ./awstats_updateall.pl

I'm having aliitle trouble getting rid of an error, thinking the olny thing i got to do is the cronjob hoping that will fix the the error message on top of my FTP and Mail stats
Never updated (See 'Build/Update' on awstats_setup.html page)

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ppuru · 09-12-2004, 07:37 AM

Quote:

does this look right ?
0 2 * * * /usr/local/awstats/tools ./awstats_updateall.pl

are you trying to run

/usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl?

If this is the case, then the above cron entry is wrong.

OR are you trying to
cd to /usr/local/awstats/tools and then run the pl script?
In this case, you should
cd /usr/local/awstats/tools && ./awstats_updateall.pl
but /usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl does the same thing

Can you tell us how you would run the awstats_updateall.pl from the command line?

tommytomato · 09-12-2004, 07:50 AM

I use the command

./awstats_updateall.pl

but to do them all its like so

./awstats_updateall.pl now

with in the directory

Code:

[root@localhost root]# cd /usr/local/awstats
[root@localhost awstats]# cd tools/
[root@localhost tools]# pwd
/usr/local/awstats/tools
[root@localhost tools]# ls
awstats_buildstaticpages.pl  configure.pl        maillogconvert.pl   xslt
awstats_exportlib.pl         httpd_conf          urlaliasbuilder.pl
awstats_updateall.pl         logresolvemerge.pl  webmin
[root@localhost tools]#

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ppuru · 09-12-2004, 07:57 AM

in that case, your cronjob should be changed to

0 2 * * * /usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl

tommytomato · 09-12-2004, 08:03 AM

Thank you

Just a question is that going to email me every time it updates,
i think i set it to every 2 hours i wanted to test it first to see if it was going to do it.

if you get my dift.

here is what i have

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ppuru · 09-12-2004, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Just a question is that going to email me every time it updates,
i think i set it to every 2 hours i wanted to test it first to see if it was going to do it.

No, actually the script will run at 2 am everyday. If you want it to run every 2 hours, change it as

* */2 * * * /usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl

tommytomato · 09-12-2004, 08:52 AM

thanks again ppuru

I should have said will that show up in my watch log ?

i have my watch log sent to my mail box every day

Code:

[root@localhost root]# crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.12899 installed on Sun Sep 12 21:55:46 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
0 2 * * * /usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl

[root@localhost root]#

I dont spose you can tell me why i get this message

Never updated (See 'Build/Update' on awstats_setup.html page)

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ppuru · 09-13-2004, 12:19 AM

do you edit your crontab with

crontab -e OR

vi /etc/crontab?

The first one is the safer way.

tommytomato · 09-13-2004, 12:21 AM

Using this

crontab -e

this is what i got back today from the cron mail

----- awstats_updateall 1.0 (build 1.9) (c) Laurent Destailleur -----
awstats_updateall launches update process for all AWStats config files (except
awstats.model.conf) found in a particular directory, so you can easily setup a
cron/scheduler job. The scanned directory is by default /etc/awstats.

Usage: awstats_updateall.pl now [options]

Where options are:
-awstatsprog=pathtoawstatspl
-configdir=directorytoscan

i dont think it worked

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ppuru · 09-13-2004, 12:26 AM

I had tried out awstats just once ... bit flaky ... that message obviously means that you need to pass some required parameters.

You can either do it at the cronjob line itself OR
write a small script and have cronjob execute the script

The script file can be something simple like

#!/bin/sh
# Awstats updateall script
/usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl <the options>

tommytomato · 09-13-2004, 12:34 AM

So i can edit the file using crontab -e

edit waht i have to look like so

0 2 * * * /usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl now

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ppuru · 09-13-2004, 12:35 AM

yes, you can do that ...

first make sure the same command works well at the command line ... that is not asking/waiting for additional options.

tommytomato · 09-13-2004, 12:38 AM

ok thanks

I was using this from the command line

./awstats_updateall.pl now

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