[SOLVED] awstats missing the tools directory

[gw1500se]

I've just installed awstats via yum. However, the tools sub-directory was not included. Where can I get the awstats tools? TIA.

[tigalch]

I just did the same and the tools directory is there at /usr/share/awstats/tools.

Maybe a 'yum reinstall awstats'can solve the problem.

cheers

[gw1500se]

Thanks for the reply but no joy. For whatever reason, the CentOS distribution of awstats omitted the tools.

[TrevorH]

Where did your copy come from? There is no package awstats in the CentOS supplied repos so it must've come from a third party repo - yum list reports a copy in EPEL for me but I didn't install it to check if it has the tools you say are missing.

[tigalch]

TrevorH is right - I missed that activated epel-repo on my box again.

So to rephrase my previous post: The awstats package provided by epel seems to work fine.

[gw1500se]

I do have epel, among others, in my repo list but I was not paying attention to where it pulled it from (perhaps sourceforge). I'll have to try to figure out how to force it to reinstall from epel and try again.

[TrevorH]

Running `rpm -qi awstats` will show you where it came from. You need to install and configure yum-priorities to prioritise the selection of packages.

[gw1500se]

OK, I got awstats installed using epel and the tools are now there (anyone know why rpmforge omits them?). It seems to be working except updating via the web. I can run the update from command line as root but it fails with this error when I run it as apache:

Error: Command for pipe '/usr/share/awstats/tools/logresolvemerge.pl /var/log/httpd/*log |' failed
Setup ('../wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.dap002.conf' file, web server or permissions) may be wrong.
Check config file, permissions and AWStats documentation (in 'docs' directory).

This is obviously a permissions error but it does not give me a clue what file(s) it is having a problem with. The log files are readable by Apache so I don't know what else it could be. Can someone help? TIA.

[TrevorH]

Are you sure the log files are readable by apache?

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su - apache -s /bin/bash -c "ls -la /var/log/httpd"
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[gw1500se]

Arrgh! You nailed it. I forgot the permissions on the parent folder. Thanks.