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[shaxs]

Was not sure where exactly to put this, but it is software used in the hosting industry. Anyways, I need help setting up a cron to run every night and automatically update my stats.

The documentaion for the tool awstats_updateall.pl is rediculous at best.

I see there are some options within the script for the following:
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my $DIRCONFIG = "/etc/awstats";

my $Debug=0;

my $Awstats='awstats.pl';

my $AwstatsDir='';
my $AwstatsProg='';
===========================

What the heck difference is there between '$DIRCONFIG' and '$AwstatsDir'? Same question goes for '$Awstats' and '$AwstatsProg'.

Secondly, my hosting company does not allow you to run cron jobs with options, for example awstats_updateall.pl - update. So, I would need to create a secondary script that calls the awstats_updateall.pl with the proper options and run that newly created script as a cron.

I am not a programmer by trade, would anyone be so kind as to write the simple script to do so? I would be ever so grateful!

[Kiamori]

with high traffic set it to run every 10 minutes or so,

dir/awstats.pl -config=(yourconffile).conf -update

[shaxs]

Thanks for the reply. My host only updates it's longs once a day unfortunately. So, I can only see last days stats.

If I were to create a seperate PERL script to call that, what would it look like?

[Kiamori]

You should be able to just add a task, that repeats once a day. Have it run that simple command and that is it. What cp do you use?

[shaxs]

We use a custom made control panel (I work for the hosting company, Its actually better than any control panel I have ever used).However, one down side is that you cannot run a cron with a command attached to the end, You can only run a script. So, in order to run a script with a command line, you need to write a seperate script that calls the script you want to run with the proper command line within the script... does that make sense?

[Kiamori]

yes, you should have a look around for a scripter thats looking for work should be an easy job. I assume 20-30 minutes max.