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I have Plesk 9.0.1 running on a Red Hat server. Every week or so at about 4:10 AM the server locks up. At this time the server CPU usage shoots from 4% to 90% at the same time as a mass of awstats.pl processes start (I can't see how many as my datat only shows the top 30 processes, but all of these are awstats.pl).

I turned off awstats through the Plesk control panel for all but 5 domains but I still get 90% CPU usage and at least 30 instances of awstats.pl happening at 4:10am as usual.

Does anyone know why this may be? Does anyone know how to disable awstats (I have stats covered using piwik)? Or how do I uninstall awstats without snarling up Plesk?

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  • Or...uninstall it - I just want to get rid of it.
    – columbo
    Jun 23, 2010 at 10:00

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Check the file:

  • /etc/cron.d/awstats

You need to comment the first line.

Best regards.

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if your are running red-hat like OS (like Fedora or SuSe or RedHat) to remove the package use:

rpm -e awstats psa-awstats-configurator

If you are running Debian or Ubuntu use

dpkg -r awstats psa-awstats-configurator 
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  • Thanks James, tried it but I get: error: Failed dependencies: awstats is needed by (installed) psa-9.0.1-cos5.build90090127.18.x86_64 Any ideas?
    – columbo
    Jul 9, 2010 at 10:04
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You can check your crontab to see if somehow it has been entered into there

crontab -e
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  • Please we aware that there are lots of other places cron jobs can live. "crontab -e" just shows you the cron jobs for that particular user. There can be anything in /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.*/ or other users (/var/spool/cron/).
    – Coops
    Feb 24, 2011 at 21:31

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