On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> from the manual:
>
> ================================================
> Finally, the mandatory configuration file is read, if you specified one when
> you compiled the program. This is a configuration file which cannot be overridden
> by the user: if it is not found, analog exits immediately. This allows a
> system administrator to prevent users analysing certain files or producing
> certain reports, for example...
> ================================================
>
> Ok... let's say we're analysing a site -- except cron jobs and cmd -- through
> the CGI interface, have a config file that tells Analog to read 213 log files,
> let's say going back 2 years... the one (and only?) obvious problem is with
> users trying to (sometimes without knowing about it) analyse all the log
> files... which we do not want. Of course we only want them to be able to
> analyse, let's say last month data...
>
> But -- if we put something like
>
> FROM -00-00-30
> TO -00-00-01
>
> in the mandatory config file, it will not work for us if a user wants to analyse
> let's say last 2 days (his 2 day requirement would get overwritten by 30
> days from the mandatory config file)... any ideas?
>
Besides, it would still go through all the logfiles to see if there were any
entries from those dates.
You can't stop users analysing at once all the logfiles that they can
analyse individually. But you can easily deny them read access to all but
the last three months' worth of logfiles, say. This is probably the solution
you are looking for.
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
"8th March 2000. National No Smoking Day. Ash Wednesday." (On a calendar)
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