Re: Awstats Cron job not executing

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:08:04PM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote:

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Try becoming the www-data user and trying the above

line from the command line directly? perhaps you'll get some helpful

output.

Actually I did intended to send the output of the above in my original mail=
but I forgot. Here is the output:
debian:~# sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -updat=
e -config=3Dmydomain

Create/Update database for config "/etc/awstats/awstats.mydomain.conf" by A=
WStats version 6.7 (build 1.892)
From data in log file "/var/log/apache2/access.log"...
Error: Couldn't open server log file "/var/log/apache2/access.log" : Permis=
sion denied

what are the permissions on /var/log/apache2?

Setup ('/etc/awstats/awstats.mydoamin.conf' file=2C web server or permissio=
ns) may be wrong.
Check config file=2C permissions and AWStats documentation (in 'docs' direc=
tory).
debian:~#=20

Not sure where else I need to give permission to www-data. As noted in my p=
revious mail=2C access.log already has "read" permission. Also I checked "a=
wstats.mydomain.conf" but did not find anything related to www-data and cro=
n jobs.

not sure what else to suggest. On my machines access.log has
permissions

-rw-r---- root adm

so to read the logs chmod o+r or access them from the adm group.

sorry, I've got nothing else to suggest.

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