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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:57:43PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote:
>On 23/07/10 14:31, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>I suggest to a) split the current cron job into infrequent and 
>>frequent jobs, b) make the frequent one optional (ideally through 
>>debconf), and c) invoke the infrequent job also (or instead?) as a 
>>logrotate hook.
>>
>>
>>How does that sound?
>
>Yeah, that works. Though looking at the current script, there's not 
>really much need to split it up.
>
>The main problem is to do the logrotate hook itself - ideally you'd add 
>it directly to the webserver entry rather than a new awstats entry. Is 
>that going to be a pain - editing another package's configuration 
>files? I dunno what infrastructure / policy Debian has for this sort of 
>thing.

Ah, yes.  That was it: Not doable!

Or more accurately: It needs implemented in webserver packages that this 
awstats package can hook into - not doable in awstats alone.


  - Jonas

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