Package: webalizer
Version: 2.23.08-1+b1
Severity: normal
The Debian webalizer package supplies a daily cron job which invokes
webalizer with its default configuration file
${WEBALIZER} -c ${i} -Q ${NLOGFILE};
where ${i} will have the value /etc/webalizer/webalizer.conf
for at least one iteration of the loop
for i in ${WEBALIZER_CONFDIR}/*.conf
The official Webalizer web site FAQ at
<http://www.webalizer.ORG/faq.html>
specifically forbids doing this in Question #11
11. My configuration file is being read twice!
Do Not use '-c webalizer.conf' on the command line! This file is
always read if found, regardless of any other configuration files
that may be specified. If you do specify it on the command line,
it will be read twice...
and there is discussion of this matter in the Webalizer support group at
<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/webalizer/conversations/topics/3791>
dated June 26. 2011 (nearly 5 years ago)
Bradford L. Barrett the creator and maintainer of webalizer:
Sounds like you are having your config file read twice.. are you
doing something like "-c webalizer.conf" on the command line when
you run the program?
If so, don't :) See the webalizer FAQ (question #11)
One of the unwanted effects of having the config file read twice is that
any customized content in HTMLtail and HTMLend are duplicated in the
generated web page report.
So please modify the webalizer daily cron job not to invoked webalizer
with its default configuration file, eg
if [ "${i}" = "${WEBALIZER_CONFDIR}/webalizer.conf" ]
then
${WEBALIZER} -Q || continue
else
${WEBALIZER} -c "${i}" -Q || continue
fi
in accord with the explicit instruction on how NOT TO invoke webalizer
with its default configuration file, which is ALWAYS read regardless.
Incidentally, why is the cron job file full of Bourne shell statements
unecessarily
terminated with semi-colons?
A Bourne shell script doe not require terminating semi-colons as do C or PERL
programs.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-kirkwood
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages webalizer depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii libdb5.3 5.3.28-9
ii libgd3 2.1.0-5+deb8u1
ii libgeoip1 1.6.7-2~bpo8+1
ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+deb8u2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
webalizer recommends no packages.
Versions of packages webalizer suggests:
ii lighttpd [httpd] 1.4.35-4
ii nginx-extras [httpd] 1.6.2-5+deb8u1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.daily/webalizer changed [not included]
/etc/webalizer/webalizer.conf.sample [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
u'/etc/webalizer/webalizer.conf.sample'
-- debconf information excluded
