On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:

> If you delete the cache file, then Analog will most likely not have any
> data for the report. So if you delete it at the end of each month.  that
> should not affect the reports (as long as you delete it AFTER analog has
> created the last report for the month). 

The log files that I have access to, at least, are rotated monthly.  I set
up the account around the middle of last month, and the access log seems
to have been rotated at around 6am on Sept. 30th.  I don't know if they
are running Analog against that or some sort of "daily log".  One thing I
can try today, though, is to rename the cache file today.  If I check the
stats tomorrow and they only show today's stats, then I'll have that
answer.  Sound like a reasonable test?

After taking a moment to compare the number of hits reported by Webalizer
on the same logs (they run both analyzers), the hit counts reported by
Analog do seem to be severely elevated (Analog reports 32897 for
September, while Webalizer reports 4613).  Because of that, and other
stats growing by themselves, they do seem to be running against the
monthly logs after all.  I don't check the Analog stats that often anyway
but, rather than get them to change their methods (which they seem dead
set against), I'd much rather keep it from causing me problems by removing
a cache file that isn't needed. 

What's scary is that, by deleting that file once a day, the stats might
become useful again :-)

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