[Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#590074: awstats: DO NOT use cron scripts to update stats database

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:54:23PM +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote:

>> I guess because I haven't written a proper config file yet? Anyway, 
>> it's still spamming my syslog *every 10 minutes*. This should at 
>> least be an option that's off by default.
>
>It's a fresh install, right?
>
>On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
>> I experienced cron spam too when trying to install awstats recently 
>> (and too busy at the time to investigate further - just cursed a bit 
>> and uninstalled awstats again).
>>
>> Possibly not a helpful comment - just want to hint that there might 
>> actually be an issue of cron spam in virgin installs of awstats 
>> currently.
>
>I guess, we can disable cron jobs by default on a fresh install.  As 
>/etc/awstats/awstats.conf is not configured by default,

A virgin install must not cause cron spam.  If you implicitly 
acknowledge above that awstats currently does, then yes, we should 
disable it by default (or figure out something more clever).


>>> I'm disagree with severity.  Looks like a very 
>>> site-specific/workload-specific issue.  Your logrotate-based 
>>> solution could be suggested as an option in README.Debian for 
>>> specific setups.
>>>
>>
>> logrotate is part of the standard install for Debian webservers (at 
>> least apache2 and lighttpd). this is not "site specific".
>
>Yes, but your logrotate settings is very "site specific" and far, far 
>away from defaults...

I fail to understand: Did I miss something and we have already been 
provided the specific logrotate config of that host?

If you are simply guessing, I suggest you state that more clearly, and 
be kinder about alternative viewpoints here. :-)


  - Jonas

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