running goaccess from cron

[rukeba]

Looks like goaccess do not see ~/.goaccessrc when running from cron.
I feel it is not goaccess problem, but rather cron.
May be you can help?

Thank you!

[allinurl]

Ruslan, how are you running goaccess from the cron? Also make sure
~/.goaccessrc exists.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Ruslan Keba notifications@github.com wrote:

Looks like goaccess do not see ~/.goaccessrc when running from cron.
I feel it is not goaccess problem, but rather cron.
May be you can help?

Thank you!

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[abgit]

@rukeba , make sure you use absolute paths inside cron.
Anyway, if you don't need to export html or csv you shouldn't get any problem.

best,

[rukeba]

@allinurl, I am running goaccess from the cron like this:

# cd to $HOME above is present
cat /var/log/nginx/access.***.log.1 | goaccess -a > report.html

The ~/.goaccessrc exists and it contains custom log format (%T added).
When i run goaccess manually, i get report with request times.
When it running from cron i get report without request time.

[rukeba]

@abgit thank you! i will check it.

[allinurl]

@rukeba, as @abgit said, check your paths. If running

cat /var/log/nginx/access.***.log.1 | goaccess -a > report.html

shows request times, then running it through the cron should do the same thing.

You can also try using -p to specify the configuration file (v0.6.1).

Let me know how that goes. Thanks!

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@abgit thank you! i will check it.

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[abgit]

@rukeba @allinurl , i have already a goaccess executed inside cron.

Anyway, i have post a issue about a problem when goaccess is used inside sh -c. goaccess tries to automagically detect if output ">" is used in command line based on isatty(). The problem is that isatty() don't detect ">" when goaccess is invoked inside a sh -c as string.

I think it's better to make goaccess export only when defined explicity by command line, eg:
goaccess -f access.log -o html > output.html
goaccess -f access.log -o csv > output.csv
This way, we don't need to goaaccess tries to automagically find if ">" was used or not .. and it will work as expected when invoked inside a linux "find".

best,

[rukeba]

Thank you, @allinurl, @abgit for suggestions!

You were right, the issue was in paths.
goaccess 0.5 located in /usr/bin, but newest goaccess 0.6.1 located in /usr/local/bin and by default called 0.5.

I fixed goaccess path to absolute path and explicitly set path to config with -p option.

Now all works like a charm.
Many thanks!

[allinurl]

That's great! Closing this issue.