On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > >Web server log analysis is a fairly mature field at this point. > >AWStats, <http://www.awstats.org/>, another popular open source log > >analyzer, has had more recent development effort than Analog. But > >even they are running out of features to add and have dramatically > >slowed their development efforts. > > I wonder how much of their development is just patching security holes.... > (I had installed AWStats for a user, and then found that it got used > to install a spam sender on my server. :/ )
While AWStats produces pretty reports, if you take a look at its source code (it's written in perl), you'll find that it's just gawd-awful. The codebase of Analog (admittedly written in C, so requiring more of a professional programmer to maintain) was relatively clean the last I looked at it, probably back around version 4. Point being, it wouldn't be surprising to me if AWStats was full of holes, though just what type of security holes a log analysis tool could expose is unclear to me. Also, I agree with whomever stated the issue with Analog's configuration syntax being confusing. I use analog a lot, but I were to change one thing about it, it would be to modify the configuration syntax to be a little more consistent and less like a 1980's DOS .bat file. Just my 2 cents. -- Steve Reppucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Logical Choice Software http://logsoft.com/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My God! What have I done? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
