Remove the -f and report back to us.

man readlink says:
'When invoked as readlink, only the target of the symbolic link is
printed. If the given argument is not a symbolic link, readlink will
print nothing and exit with an error.'

I've changed it to
PIWIK_CRON_FOLDER=dirname ${0}

To make my local version work

Ah yes, thanks for the reminder. That's why we use -f.

act_path() {
    local pathname="$1"
    readlink -f "$pathname" 2>/dev/null || \
    realpath "$pathname" 2>/dev/null || \
    type -P "$pathname" 2>/dev/null
}

ARCHIVE=`act_path ${0}`
PIWIK_CRON_FOLDER=`dirname ${ARCHIVE}`

The above works for me on FreeBSD and Scientific Linux SL

ogs22, do you think you could submit a version that works on freebsd-SL linux and on debian/other linux? it would be very useful. Thanks

Sorry yes I should have said the above code should work on any Linux version the original code worked on as it tries the readlink -f first.

I'll attach the modified archive.sh

Attachment:
archive.sh

ogs22, could you post a diff instead of the full file please? thx

Attachment:
archive.patch

In [1568], fixes #1033 - archive.sh patch; thanks ogs22