On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Paul Reiff wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> here's my question:
> Each day, i want to create a statistic, which contains all data of the
> previous days of the current month + the data of the current day. I'm doing
> this by including the data of the current day via the regular logfile
> (LOGFILE ...../...../today.log) and simultaneuosly creating a cachefile of
> this logfile and including the data of the previous days via the old
> cachefiles of these day (CACHEFILE *cachefile).
> Now my question is: Do i really have to include all the cachfiles from all
> previous days, or does the cachfile from the day before already contain all
> the information of the previous days ? And if so, how can i configure
> analog, that it is impossible to use just one cachefile on which i can
> append the information of the current day ?
>

It is possible to do it the way you're suggesting, but I really recommend
using the procedure described in docs/cache.html instead -- basically, make
one cache file from each logfile. It's easier to get right, and more
resilient against data loss.

-- 
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
 "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than
  the question of whether a submarine can swim."  (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
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