Sarg cron scripts don't generate logs correctly

[Mensi]

Binary package hint: sarg

Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
Version: 2.2.5-1

What I expected to happen:

Weekly + monthly usage stats would be generated from the Squid logs for the full week/month.

What happened instead:

Weekly reports only contained usage for last day, monthly reports contain usage for last week of month.

Solution:

Including the log file parameter in the weekly+monthly cron scripts so that Sarg looks at all the relevant log files.

[mmaura (mmaura66)]

always present in Lucid

way to solve :

rm /etc/cron.daily/sarg
rm /etc/cron.weekly/sarg
rm /etc/cron.monthly/sarg

echo "PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
00 08-18/1 * * * sarg-reports today
00 00 * * * sarg-reports daily
00 01 * * 1 sarg-reports weekly
30 02 1 * * sarg-reports monthly" > /etc/cron.d/sarg

After we must change log rotatation for squid to monthly
and remove the obsolete and broken prerotate line :

(/etc/logrotate.d/squid)

        prerotate
# test ! -x /usr/sbin/sarg-reports || /usr/sbin/sarg-reports
        endscript

[mmaura (mmaura66)]

this bug is present since 2 years

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

From my POV, the user argument is missing. It should look like this:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

00 08-18/1 * * * root sarg-reports today
00 00 * * * root sarg-reports daily
00 01 * * 1 root sarg-reports weekly
30 02 1 * * root sarg-reports monthly

[Thomas (t.c)]

still no fix on the package?

[Thomas (t.c)]

And why is Importance only low?

A logfile analyzer which not runs to the right time is not really useful.

So can please somebody change the Importance to more than low or still fix it (it is not so mush to do).