Question

Just recently I had noticed that WebStatistics had broken. When running an update, I received an error saying that the log file where the stats are stored was not there. I checked, and sure enough the log file for log200708.txt was not created. I have had TWiki running for about 5 months now, and it has always automatically generated and populated the log files for each month.

I thought that as a fix, I would just run touch log200708.txt and then when I do a stats update, it would just populated that file. This turns out to not be the case. No matter how many times I run the stats update script, it doesn't update the log file.

I have not made any changes to TWiki that would effect this script, and perl hasn't been updated in the mean time (just in case a perl update was the culprit).

Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Ben

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-- BenjaminRoby - 10 Aug 2007

Answer

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who owns the log file? make sure the correct user (in my case apache) has rw permissions.

-- GrazianoMisuraca - 10 Aug 2007

That fixed the problem of the stats log file not updating. When I had manually created the log file for this month, I did it as root, and forgot to change permissions to apache.

Hopefully next month, TWiki will once again automatically create the new log file and I won't run into this issue.

Thanks for your help!

-- BenjaminRoby - 13 Aug 2007