SID-00518: Cronjob for statistic update fails

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.2	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryStatistics	Server OS:	Mac OSX 10.5	Last update:	16 years ago

I am using the following cronjob for automatically updating the statistics:

*/1 * * * * (cd /Library/WebServer/Documents/twiki/tools; ./geturl.pl 127.0.0.1 /twiki/bin/statistics.pl >/dev/null 2>&1)

I use a 1 minute refresh, just to check if it works. I've also tried to run it on command line without piping the output. When i run it i get this:

Statistics for Sep 2009<br />

* Reporting on Main web<br />

- view: 107, save: 14, upload: 0<br />

- top view: 33 WebHome<br />

- top contributor: 7 OnkieBonkie<br />

- Topic WebStatistics updated<br />

* Reporting on Sandbox web<br />

- view: 3, save: 0, upload: 0<br />

- top view: 2 WebHome<br />

- Topic WebStatistics updated<br />

* Reporting on TWiki web<br />

- view: 105, save: 0, upload: 0<br />

- top view: 52 WebStatistics<br />

- ERROR: no permission to CHANGE statistics topic in TWiki<br />

* Reporting on Trash web<br />

- view: 0, save: 0, upload: 0<br />

- Topic WebStatistics updated<br />

The problem is that the statistics page isn't being updated and the following error is the cause of that

ERROR: no permission to CHANGE statistics topic in TWiki

Please help, because i have no idea what the problem is, everything alse works fine.

-- IvarLugtenburg - 2009-09-06

Discussion and Answer

The error is still there, but it does update the statistics page. It will have to do

-- IvarLugtenburg - 2009-09-06

You can run the statistics script directly from the command line, no need to call as cgi script. Here is a sample crontab entry:

59 23 * * * (cd /var/www/twiki/bin; nice ./statistics >/var/www/twiki/data/.statistics.out 2>&1)

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-09-07

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