Topic: Cron - awstats error

[Mike]

I installed awstats a few weeks ago.  After checking the admin mail this morning, I had over 150 emails and am continuing to receive more.  

The email source:
(xxx.xxx is my domain.  I didn't want to post it to a public forum)
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Delivered-To: root@server03.xxx.xxx.com
Received: (qmail 1383 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2002 04:35:02 -0000
Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-root@xxx.xxx.com
Received: (qmail 1380 invoked by uid 0); 20 Apr 2002 04:35:02 -0000
Date: 20 Apr 2002 04:35:02 -0000
Message-ID: <20020420043502.1379.qmail@xxx.xxx.com>
From: root@xxx.xxx.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root@xxx.xxx.com
Subject: Cron /bin/nice /sbin/e-smith/awstats-pp -s -n
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
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Could not open /var/log/httpd/awstats/

[Nathan Fowler]

Seems to me a good idea would be to:

"mkdir /var/log/httpd/awstats" at the bash command line.




Nathan Fowler
evilghost@stickit.nu

[Quade]

I recently started getting this too (an e-mail every 5 minutes since yesterday), but I've had awstats running for nearly a year, and have never seen this.

It simpy said:
Could not open /var/log/httpd/awstats/                                                                               www.thegeekhouse.com

I've tried touching that filename, to see if it just couldn't write to that file, and I've tried makdir'ing that directory, both with no results.