108288 - Web stats are broken

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 105914

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

The data on http://www.mozilla.org/webalizer/ stops on October 4th. Now I think
of it, this happened to my ISP. I suspect the problem is:

"Notice: Webalizer versions 1.30 through 2.00 calculated timestamps in a way
that cause the value to overflow on October 5th, 2001, causing the stats to
'stop' at midnight October 4th. Version 2.01 does not suffer from this problem,
and has been available for over a year. If you cannot upgrade to the current
version, a  patch is available on the ftp site to fix the old versions."

That's from http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/news.html

We should obviously apply the patch. Can we get the historical data back? If
not, can we restart the stats gathering?

Gerv

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Download link for webalizer old versions:

ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/old/

Gerv

Comment 2

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Dupe of bug 105914, which has a patch which just postpones this for 3 years....

There was a security patch for webalizer 2 the other day -
http://lwn.net/alerts/RedHat/RHSA-2001%3A141-05.php3
Don't know if this affects the verrsion m.o is running

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105914 ***

Comment 3

[Matt Perry]

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