On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote:

> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > 
> >         I discussed this with Steven (our great benefactor) who pointed out
> > that this will not prevent the DNS lookups from occurring (and failing) as
> > the HOSTALIAS code is after the name resolution code.
> 
> A pre-processing hook invoking an external program for rewriting the log file 
> entries prior to processing would help here.
> 
> Something like
> 
>         PreprocessFilter     /home/me/resolve.pl
> 
> which would receive log file lines one at a time from stdin and write log
> file lines (or discard lines) to stdout.
> 
> In addition to external DNS modifications this would also come handy to 
> reformat log file entries which are not compatible with analog, e.g.
> Cookie values containing double-quotes etc.
> 

UNCOMPRESS is actually just a pre-processing hook, so this already exists.

-- 
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01

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