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

[Olivier Berger]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:44:18PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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 also experiencing such spamming, and it gets even worse as it runs as www-data, and there's no /etc/aliases redirecting it to a real user by default in exim, it seems.

So there's an ever growing mailbox in /var/spool/mail/www-data :-(

See #496029 that seems to relate to the aliases problem.

Still this needs to be addressed on awstats side too, I guess.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,