How to use crontab to schedule statistics updates
Relating to my previous post on Visitors and Graphviz, I setup a cron at Dreamhost so that it is running and updating the analysis on an interval.
The docs at Visitors website was quite confusing so I just did it the way I thought it made sense.
So, here it is. This is the cron task. Put together with the makefile in the previous post and you’ll have an up to the minute analysis of the traffic at your site.
5 * * * * cd ~/graph; make >& /dev/null