"Bryan Ax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've got the cookie to track my user. I didn't see in the analog
> documentation where I could configure the LOGFORMAT to do the
> USERINCLUDE field. I'll give that a shot and see what happens. Can you
> please refer me to more information on setting that up?

If your cookie field looks something like
logonid=ABC123

then your LOGFORMAT would include logonid=%u

Typically, you'll have more that one cookie in your cookie field, so
you'll have to tweak your LOGFORMAT to ignore the rest of the cookie
information. For example, if the cookie looks like

logonid=ABC123;othercookie=blah

then your LOGFORMAT will include logonid=%u;%j - Anlog will recognize the
";" as indicating the end of the logonID.

> Unfortunately, I DO actually care about the 50,000 visitors. Except
> there won't be quite that many - more like 1000.

I can absolutely guarantee that if you generate 1,000 individial user
reports, you will not look at all 1,000 of them, and neither will anyone
else!

> However, I need to be
> able to track every bit of data about that user, their sessions, where
> they go and when.

What you'll probably find is that, once you've gathered all that data,
that some bits of it are meaningless (either because the variability is
too large to be useful, or because the data doesn't actually tell you
anything useful). Unfortunately, you can't know that it's not all that
useful until after you analyse it (at least the first time).

By the way, if your logon information is being tracked in a cookie, then
you must be checking that cookie within the page access code. I presume
that code uses some sort of timeout mechanism? If so, then that's the
place to count your sessions, not in an after the fact log analysis.

Aengus

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