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and subject line Bug#580702: fixed in awstats 6.9.5~dfsg-4
has caused the Debian Bug report #580702,
regarding awstats: Improvement to documentation of logfile permissions and
suggest locking
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Package: awstats
Version: 6.9.5~dfsg-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Attached are some additions to the README.Debian file explaining in
more detail how to change the permissions of Apache log files and
recommendations for /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 and EnableLockForUpdate.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages awstats depends on:
ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages awstats recommends:
ii libnet-xwhois-perl 0.90-3 Whois Client Interface for Perl5
Versions of packages awstats suggests:
pn apache2 | httpd <none> (no description available)
pn libgeo-ipfree-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libnet-dns-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libnet-ip-perl <none> (no description available)
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
-- no debconf information
>From 9ec6cd3775c74ec57ab2474b6a347b05fbe88f98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Neighbors <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:05:12 -0700
Subject: Improve documentation of logfile permissions and suggest
EnableLockForUpdate=1.
---
debian/README.Debian | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index b3ea45b..94fff06 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -7,16 +7,16 @@ Quick'n'dirty setup
Do the following for a simple setup of a single website with Apache 2.x:
* Edit /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 to permit www-data access to logfiles
- * copy /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/apache.conf to /etc/apache2/conf.d/
- * copy /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/awstats.default.conf to /etc/awstats/
- * edit /etc/default/awstats to enable nightly build of static html reports
+ * Copy /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/apache.conf to /etc/apache2/conf.d/
+ * Copy /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/awstats.default.conf to /etc/awstats/
+ * Edit /etc/default/awstats to enable nightly build of static html reports
The above is _NOT_ supported or recommended! Please read the rest of this
document instead...
-No stats are generated
-----------------------
+No stats are generated due to logfile permissions
+-------------------------------------------------
As AWStats is used both as a CGI-script and offline, it is by default run as
uid=www-data in cron jobs so that generated files are accessible from CGI as
@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@ well.
By default Apache stores (since version 1.3.22-1) logfiles with uid=root and
gid=adm, so you need to either...
- 1) Change the rights of the logfiles in /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 so that
- www-data has at least read access.
+ 1) Change the rights of the logfiles so that www-data has at least read
+ access. For example:
+ change line in /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 to: "create 644 root adm"
+ change permissions of existing files: chmod 644 /var/log/apache2/*.log
2) As 1) but change to a specific user, and use the suEXEC feature of Apache
to run as same user (and either change the right of /var/lib/awstats as
@@ -47,8 +49,19 @@ By default AWStats scans logfiles each 10 minutes. When
Apache (and
other webservers) rotate their logfiles, the last entries in the old
logfile may not have been read by AWStats.
-Make sure to run AWStats right _before_ web logs are rotated (add a
-"prerotate" in /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 for Apache).
+Make sure to run AWStats right _before_ web logs are rotated. For
+example, insert the following lines in /etc/logrotate.d/apache2:
+
+ prerotate
+ if [ -x /usr/share/awstats/tools/update.sh ]; then
+ su - -c /usr/share/awstats/tools/update.sh www-data
+ fi
+ endscript
+
+Also consider enabling lock files in /etc/awstats/awstats.conf.local
+with EnableLockForUpdate=1 so that only one AWStats update process is
+running at a time. This will reduce system resources especially if
+the AWStats update process takes longer than 10 minutes to complete.
The icons are missing
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1.5.6.5
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: awstats
Source-Version: 6.9.5~dfsg-4
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
awstats, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
awstats_6.9.5~dfsg-4.debian.tar.gz
to main/a/awstats/awstats_6.9.5~dfsg-4.debian.tar.gz
awstats_6.9.5~dfsg-4.dsc
to main/a/awstats/awstats_6.9.5~dfsg-4.dsc
awstats_6.9.5~dfsg-4_all.deb
to main/a/awstats/awstats_6.9.5~dfsg-4_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> (supplier of updated awstats package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:26:53 -0400
Source: awstats
Binary: awstats
Architecture: source all
Version: 6.9.5~dfsg-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian AWStats Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>
Description:
awstats - powerful and featureful web server log analyzer
Closes: 275491 575545 580699 580702 582602 582861 590947
Changes:
awstats (6.9.5~dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Jonas Smedegaard ]
* Fix bashism in buildstatic.sh.
Closes: bug#582861.
* Recommend versions of coreutils supporting mktemp --tmpdir.
Closes: bug#582602, thanks to Vincent Danjean.
.
[ Andreas Henriksson ]
* Remove myself from uploaders.
.
[ Sergey B Kirpichev ]
* Install logresolvemerge.pl in tools.
Closes: bug#275491.
* Change order of configs parsing in update.sh and buildstatic.sh.
Closes: bug#580699, thanks to Ken Neighbors.
* Improve documentation. Logfile permissions, EnableLockForUpdate
option, setup for multiple sites.
Closes: bug#580702, thanks to Ken Neighbors.
* Prevent nested includes from being prematurely closed.
Closes: bug#575545, thanks to Ken Neighbors.
* Rephrase steps needed for apache.conf installation.
Closes: bug#590947.
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