Tim - If you know any vbscript, you might want to take a look at my Analog_run.vbs ( http://www.christopherlewis.com/CodeSamples.htm ), which includes the ability to run weekly reports (i.e. given any single day, it calcs the FROM/TO for Sunday to Saturday).
It would be relatively easy to program it for quarterly reports. It doesn't play the game of fixing the LOGFILE line, but I've found that Analog itself is quite smart at figuring out the appropriate files to read. Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Larson > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [analog-help] scripting weekly and quarterly reports > > > On 11/11/2003 9:20 AM, Sean at IMAGINET felt like writing: > > > For my weekly reports i use the following:- > > > > FROM -00-00-07 > > TO -00-00-01 > > But what do you use for LOGFILE? My files are named like > ex%y%M%D.log. > If I use that, analog will only process the log for > ex031110.log (given > today's date) because it bases the substitution only on the > TO date. So > I change LOGFILE to ex%y%M??.log to make sure I cover > everything for the > month...but then what happens when my week overlaps a month boundary? > The only real solution I see is to not limit filenames by date > (ex??????.log) and parse every file for dates in the desired > range. Ugh. > > > Or for 'last month':- > > > > FROM -00-0101 > > TO -00-0131 > > Which, if I redefine my LOGFILE to ex%y%M??.log for the > monthly report, > works fine. But I shouldn't ever have to change my LOGFILE > directive - > my log name format has not changed. Between FROM, TO, and LOGFILE, > analog ought to have everything it needs to open all the > files it needs > but no more than it needs. Again assuming logs rotated out > at midnight, > of course. > > > A bit of unnecessary log file opening and closing required > but this works well as long as the necessary logs are > avialble in the path. > > A _lot_ of unnecessary log file processing, and I've only got > logs going > back a year. > > If there's some simple trick I could add to my script I'd be > happy, but > if the file selection worked as I describe I don't think I'd need a > script at all; I could schedule analog directly with a few > options on the > command line. It's not terribly difficult to do the date > calculations > and build all the necessary file names myself, but it seems like > duplication of effort if every webmaster has to do this. > Maybe I will > look into hacking analog's source. > > Thanks, > Tim > -- > Tim Larson, Webmaster > LovelySkin.com > 402.334.SKIN For a more beautiful > you, surf us! > > +------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: > | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html > | > | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ > | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general > | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives > +------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
