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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!spcuna!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: crontab and sh scripts References: <marcus.216.0111D480@ccelab.iastate.edu> <40bmnk$9vo@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Organization: Mordor International Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 01:22:42 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <DD4H5v.DGy@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 40 James Raynard (james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) wrote: : In article <marcus.216.0111D480@ccelab.iastate.edu>, : Marcus I. Ryan <marcus@ccelab.iastate.edu> wrote: : >I have written an sh script that calculates some statistics for my WWW server. : >Basically is greps through the log files a few hundred times :) : Arrgghhh! You don't want to do it like that! (Unless of course you have a : very quiet WWW server 8-) Exactly. You don't want to use something piggy like getstats either. A guy on the bsdi-users list turned me on to analog and I've never looked back. It's remarkably efficient, even on huge log files. I use it to update my stats hourly on my new web box (I'll probably change that to 2 or 3 times/day soon). This is on a box that's been getting roughly 200k hits/day. (For the curious, it's a DX2-80 with 16mb RAM, Buslogic localbus SCSI controller, and a moderately fast Seagate disk...running 2.0.5R.) : I use analog at work - it takes just over one minute to analyse a 60+MB : logfile. : >I wan't it to update the report nightly, but I can't seem to get the crontab : >entry to make it do this. I have added the lines: : >#Generate New Prelim Logfiles every day at midnight. : >59 23 * * * root /usr/local/bin/stathtml \ : >`date +" %b %B"` : Remove the 'root' field and all should be well (man 5 crontab for details). Yup. Regards, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451