Tim: >> Sounds more like Apache problems, not AWStats, this is Apache failing to >> start. AWStats just reads the logs, *separately*. As a regular cron >> job, as I recall. Though it can be fired up on demand. Gene Heskett: > Actually, its something in the new 2.6.27-rc1 kernel that is stopping it. > I just rebooted to 2.6.26 final, and its happy as a clam. The 2.6.27-rc1 > kernel has some newer options targeted at net security that I haven't quite > grokked yet. You're using non-Fedora kernels? I don't see that one offered to me. If so, I'm not too surprised if things break, Fedora will have modified kernels to suit how their distro works, they all have their quirks. > Back to awstats, where does this output show up? As a web page on localhost, > or something it takes mrtg to look at? AWStats produces a set of webpages with statistics that you can login and view. See the screenshots on <http://awstats.sourceforge.net/>. You'd have to look at the configuration details inserted into Apache's configuration, to see where it comes from. I hadn't installed it, but it's on my hosted website, so I'm familiar with using it. I'm installing it now, to have a look at how it actually works. I've got it running, and with no errors. Though I had to tweak two settings in a /etc/awstats/awstats.localhost.conf configuration file to suit my website (localhost, for this test - setting the sitedomain directive to localhost, and for it to *NOT* skip results from 127.0.0.1, by putting some other bogus IP in the skiphosts directive). NB: I've done this with a spinning headache, so you ought to be able to manage this as well, without my headache. Looking at its configuration files, it serves static content out of /usr/share/awstats/, dynamic content from /var/lib/awstats/, and you'd view results <http://localhost/awstats/awstats.pl?config=sitename> (changing "sitename" to the sitename set in the configuration file inside /etc/awstats/). As a comparison, I have previously installed webalizer, and that stores its statistics in /var/lib/webalizer, and generates HTML for viewing the stats in /var/www/usage, and its results at <http://localhost/usage/>. This worked without my customising it, though I would go ahead and do so, to stop it showing things like CSS and JPEG files as "page" results. And if you use use virtual hosts to serve different websites from the same webserver software, you'd want to customise your stats program to separate the results. I mention an alternative stats program, since webalizer seems to be installed by default, and it can be handy to have a look at more than one analyzer, to see which results you like reading better. > Also, what user does the cron entry belong to? [root@gonzales ~]# ll /etc/cron.hourly/awstats -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 188 2008-07-22 06:50 /etc/cron.hourly/awstats [root@gonzales ~]# ll -Z /etc/cron.hourly/awstats -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 /etc/cron.hourly/awstats How did it originally set itself up as? >> Are you still using your computer as root, and messing up file and >> directory ownerships as you go along? > Here and there. If fedora would give me what I want to do, I'd use it as is, > but it doesn't. Generally, I find it does. I only "su -" to reconfigure things. But once you stay as root while doing things, you paint yourself into a corner. I also leave SELinux as default (enabled and targeted). I might temporarily disable it to see if it made a difference to something I was trying to beat into submission, but it goes back on again once I work out where any problems were. I had no SELinux issues while using either of these stats analysers. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
