On Sunday, March 12, 2006 5:17 AM [EDT], analog-help at talent-aid.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I seem to have missed some functionality of analog+report magic. > I have access logs in the order of 50MB zipped (gz) per day. > I can happily ask analog to take all http access* files in a directory > and create a report.dat > However I want to daily take ONE access file and create a > report_yyyymmdd.dat and then have report magic run over whatever > report* files I have, creating yearly, monthly and daily pages from > ALL that year's report*.dats > > So I have in analog.cfg output file report_%Y%M%D.dat > What do I do to Report Magic to have it read > report_20060227.dat > report_20060228.dat > report_20060301.dat > report_20060302.dat > report_20060303.dat > report_20060304.dat > report_20060305.dat > report_20060306.dat > report_20060307.dat > report_20060308.dat > report_20060309.dat > report_20060310.dat > report_20060311.dat > report_20060312.dat > > and create 3 weeks worth of reporting? > I cannot believe I would have to run analog over a whole year's worth > of log files to get a year's worth of report magic html reports An Analog report is a summary of the information in your logfiles. If you combine 2 weeks of summary information, you won't get the same answer that you would if you analyzed the whole 2 weeks of data. For example, a Host that visits your site every day, reading a few pages might not show up in your daily summaries at all, because other, occassional, visitors would check out more of your site on any given day, pushing your persistent visitor out of the top 20. But in an analysis of all the logs, that daily visitor would show up, because over the two weeks they would have hit more pages than those one off visitors. Analog can create "summary" files that preserve most of the information that you want (see http://analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq157 ) though you will lose the links between different parts of the data - you can't use a HOSTEXCLUDE on a cache file to exclude your own traffic, for instance - you have to use the HOSTEXCLUDE when you are creating the cache file in the first place, so you need to decide on what you want in your reports before you create the cache files. Asking different questions of a cache file than the ones it was designed to answer is an unreiable process. You can create the cache file at the same time as you create your .dat file. When you want to create your monthly or yearly summary, have analog read the cache files to create a new month.dat or year.dat file - ReportMagic won't read the cache files directly. Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
