Hook doesn't execute

[aferrer]

Hi all,

I've implemented a Perl module with a function to copy to another location and compress domain logs. I've registered it with manage_hooks successfully. This is what it looks like:

[/usr/local/apache/domlogs]# /usr/local/cpanel/bin/manage_hooks list
Stats:
RunUser:
stage: pre
weight: 1000
exectype: module
hook: Capside::Rotatelogs::rotate

As I understand [1], this should run right before cpanellogd comes in to process a user's log. However, if I manually run a user's statistics through WHM, nothing happens. I've put some lines in the function to print messages to STDERR as it goes, but nothing appears in /usr/local/cpanel/error_log, where I've read it should go and where messages from cpanellogd go, so I think the hook is never executed (I'm guessing that if the 'hook manager' had any trouble running the module it would appear here too).

Any idea on what I'm missing? Is there something else I need to do for the hook to execute the function? Or is it that it won't work when run manually from WHM?

Thanks!

[1] Stats Functions | Standardized Hooks

[cosbeta]

I have the same issue.
I have many servers with cpanel with the same configuration
but yesterday , I found one of my cpanel server's cpanel hook stop working, /scripts/upcp --forece does not help

[cPanelDavidN]

aferrer,

Does your hook run if you call the runweblogs script?
ex:
`/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/runweblogs aferrer` (a username must be provided)

Regards,
-David

[aferrer]

Does your hook run if you call the runweblogs script?
ex:
`/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/runweblogs aferrer` (a username must be provided)
-David

Hi David,

thanks for your response. Yes, the hook runs with runweblogs:

[2012-06-18 08:49:48 +0200] info [cpanellogd] ---debug_hooks---
[2012-06-18 08:49:48 +0200] info [cpanellogd] msg: Beginning execution of module hook.
[2012-06-18 08:49:48 +0200] info [cpanellogd] context: Stats::RunUser
[2012-06-18 08:49:48 +0200] info [cpanellogd] stage: pre
[2012-06-18 08:49:48 +0200] info [cpanellogd] point: main
[2012-06-18 08:49:48 +0200] info [cpanellogd] hook: Capside::Rotatelogs::rotate
[2012-06-18 08:49:48 +0200] info [cpanellogd] weight: 1000

What's the difference between running runweblogs and the daily processing of stats and logs? To copy and compress domlogs, do you think I should put the hook somewhere else?

Thanks!

[aferrer]

It seems the problem was in the script, I could fix it with the output provided by runweblogs. Problem is I couldn't find a log that showed this information and I couldn't see whether the hook was being executed, but it looks like it always run. Is the runweblogs output written somewhere? (I have debug_hooks enabled).

Thanks!

[cPanelDavidN]

There are only a few places that actually trigger the use of runweblogs directly...and those places don't get run periodically. The output is not captured, but simply sent to STDOUT when invoked from the command line and discarded with invoked by a caller. You'd have to redirect the output when you call it or modify runweblogs to capture the output (hack runweblogs, which I recommend against).

Regards,
-DavidN