On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Aengus wrote:

> "Harry Lebowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody know if someone has written software to interrogate the
> > logfile,  look at the entries in the logfile and create logformats
> > that I could choose to use in my analog.cfg ?
> 
> Analog already does a pretty good job of looking at the entries in the
> logfile and creating a logformat - if it can't understand the logformat,
> it's likely to be because it's ambiguous, and a more aggressive aplication
> would be only marginally more successful anyway.
> 

Hmmm, I'm not sure about this. Analog does a good job if the log is in one
of the standard formats. This includes cases where the header lines give the
format. But if it's in a custom format, analog doesn't even try. I think
there is scope for a program to try and be smart about this. For example, to
know that something of the form "Mozilla/n.m (stuff)" is a browser. I
suspect it's a hard job though.

-- 
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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