On Friday, November 11, 2005 3:53 AM [EDT],
Alan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Double check your permissions - if you can run it but cron can't then
> its either not able to access the log due to permissions or it cannot
> find the file.
>
> Seeing as the analog.cfg file has the absolute path then I would
> check the permissions of the logfile.

A permissions problem would generally cause a "failed to open" error
message. The Auto-detect warning suggests that Analog could read the file,
but couldn't parse it.

Aengus

>
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>
> Alan Wright
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> At 19:27 10/11/2005, you wrote:
>> Aengus,
>>
>> Yes, in analog.cfg, I have
>>
>> LOGFILE /var/log/httpd/access_log
>>
>> The odd thing is that analog works if I run it manually, but bombs
>> when running as a cron job.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Aengus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:38 PM
>> To: Support for analog web log analyzer
>> Subject: Re: [analog-help] Can't auto-detect format of logfile
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 09, 2005 4:21 PM [EDT],
>> Ngan, Michael (NIH/NCI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> When I run analog as a cronjob, I receive the following error
>>> message, but it ran OK if I execute analog manually.
>>>
>>> Anyone know what's the problem? I am using RedHat Professional 9.0
>>
>> You haven't really given us much information. Are you specifying a
>> LOGFORMAT
>> in your analog.cfg? The auto-detect message would indicate that you
>> aren't.
>> Have you tried specifying one? What about the error log - have you
>> looked at
>> it?
>>
>> Aengus
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/bin/analog
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/analog: analog version 6.0/Unix
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/analog: Warning F: Can't auto-detect format of logfile
>>>
>>>   /var/log/httpd/access_log: ignoring it
>>>
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