The bug #275491 "Install useful tools as executables instead of examples" is tagged "wontfix" because the tools are considered to be generic purpose examples that are not necessarily appropropriate to Debian. While that's probably true for most of them, what about logresolvemerge.pl?
logresolvemerge.pl is a good stand alone tool for sorting log files according to date and merging them. This is particularly useful in setting up awstats on Debian as our default apache logrotate config splits the logs. Here is some useful info from the upstream FAQ: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_faq.html#MULTILOG http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_tools.html#logresolvemerge Here is what I did to setup a new awstats on an existing webserver: apt-get install awstats edit /etc/awstats/awstats.conf created a new system group for web logs add www-data to the new group edit /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 and change log ownership to the new group edit apache config and add the example stuff /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/logresolvemerge.pl -dnslookup \ /var/log/apache2/access.log* >/tmp/alllogs as www-data run /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl --config=awstats -LogFile=/tmp/alllogs One issue I had with logresolvemerge.pl is that it appears to be using DOS end-of-line characters, and so isn't executable by default until you strip those. -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
