Goaccess: Suggestion: distribute with --enable-tcb

[e-ruiz]

Hi! Thanks for goAccess.

I installed following this instructions:
http://goaccess.io/download#debian

But unfortunatelly, this .deb package was compiled without --enable-tcb=btree, which is necessary to make incremental log analises, right?

So, why not distribute with this functionality enabled?

PS: I know it is possible compile by the source code, your instructions works very fine.

PS2: I tried by myself to make a .deb package, but is too hard to me, I have no expertise for that. (https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging)

[bard]

@e-ruiz try this:

$ apt-get source goaccess
$ apt-get build-dep goaccess

You'll get a goaccess-0.6 directory (or similar). Open the debian/rules file using your favorite text editor and add the following (careful that dh_auto_configure is preceded by a tab, not spaces):

override_dh_auto_configure:
    dh_auto_configure -- --enable-tcb=btree

And finally:

$ cd goaccess-0.6
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us

This should give you a .deb package ready to install.

[LeeNX]

Just run into an issue, where my 8GB server is not big enough to run goaccess report for a month.

Believe btree on disk might help and having it shipped in the standard package would be awesome.

[allinurl]

@LeeNX I plan to add this, but first I need to automate the process of adding them to the repo in the least amount of steps. Right now it takes some time to do it, especially for three archs, arm, i386 and amd64 .

_BTW_, removing the query string -q can greatly decrease memory consumption, especially on timestamped requests. You can also use -g to use less memory when querying GeoIP data.

[LeeNX]

@allinurl Thank you for your damed quick reply!!

Looking at around 150M requests to process for a month report, will test your above shortly and see how much info we might loose, else we will just have to rent a bigger VM for a report ... ;-)

[LeeNX]

v1.0 looking so awesome!! Thanks!!

Was really hoping v1.0 would ship with --enable-tcb=btree already compiled in. lazy_guy ;-)

[JeroenVanOort]

Is there anything I, or anyone, can do to make this work?

Not so much from the lazy point of view, but more from the sysadmin view: having a dependency that is mainly used on larger projects compiled in really has an added value.

[allinurl]

Alright, I was able to work on this and I got to the point where building goaccess with --enable-tcb=btree won't take too long. I plan to start distributing goaccess with on-disk support. I'll post the package details pretty soon.

[JeroenVanOort]

Thanks! Looking forward to it.

[nutella]

Any ETA for this? Will be great for many sysadm ;)

Thanks...

[allinurl]

@nutella I've working on the next release so I haven't had much chance, but I'll have this over the weekend.

[allinurl]

It's finally here!!! Here are the details:

$ echo "deb http://deb.goaccess.io/ $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/goaccess.list
$ wget -O - https://deb.goaccess.io/gnugpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install goaccess-tcb

Note: Since goaccess requires libtokyocabinet9, on-disk support is available from Trusty+ or Wheezy+.

[allinurl]

Closing this.

[LeeNX]

@allinurl - Thanks, working very nicely, doing some crazy stuff again ... ;-)