Hi everyone,

I've got a process setup in my /etc/cron.hourly folder to parse my log files to generate stats for webalizer. The file has 755 permissions, and inside the file reads this:

#!/bin/bash
webalizer -c /etc/webalizer.conf

For some reason CRON won't process this automatically. My stats aren't updated hourly. I don't see any errors generating either in my /var/log/cron file. Although, i can execute the script by just typing ./webalizer in the /etc/cron.hourly folder and everything works fine.

I changed the /etc/webalizer.conf file to 755 permissions to see if that might effect things, but it hasn't. I know this has to be something simple..



TIA

Is crond even running? Did you set this up for root's crontab or another users? And if so, is the webalizer command in that users path?

Quick response..

Crond is running - i have a bunch of other processes that cron executes without problems. Forgive my ignorance, but how do i check if the webalizer command is in roots path? If i just execute webalizer manually from the root login it works fine by using 'webalizer -c /etc/webalizer.conf'.

Make sure to use the full path to the script in cron.

Maybe you need to put the complete path to webalizer

#!/bin/bash
/usr/wherever/it/is/webalizer -c /etc/webalizer.conf

Any errors in your email from cron?

Aha!~ It was the complete path to webalizer that fixed it. :-) Thank you very much for your help.