Rob Kolosky wrote: > I use AWStats for log file analysis (http://awstats.sourceforge.net)
I used to use AWStats as well for quite some time, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to read all the log files without writing some complex looping code in a batch file (Win2k server) and then write an AT command to have it run the code daily at a specific time. However, if the server was down during the scheduled time, I'd never get that log file processed (assuming I had the logs set to daily).
Do you know of a good way to work around this? WebTrends allows me to have it scan through any set of logs. Then it checks the same log file every two minutes and only updates the changes since the last check. This works great even on large monthly log files that are 150MB each. AWStats on the other hand took a long time to parse through such large files. Granted, its been almost a year since I've used AWStats. I'm hoping its gotten better. I'd prefer to use AWStats for most of my sites rather than purchase licensing for features the client doesn't really care to use anyway. Any tips would be helpful (DOS batch files are welcome as well).
I have my stats machine copy the web logs from the web server every night at 2 AM and then run AWStats. So, I can't actually tell you how lng it takes. I wouldn't expect it to be super-speedy though as I do have it doing DNS lookups while analyzing the log. AWStats claims have gotten faster, but I can't vouch for that.
AWStats can look at a log file multiple times and see the new lines versus the old lines. The thing it doesn't do is scan through a directory of log files, looking for changed files. YOu can approximate that by using logresolvemerge.pl to merge all of the log files in a directory together, and then turn AWStats loose on that.
If you'd like to see my config files or my DOS batch commands, I can send them to you off-list. I even have a batch file and ASP pages that work together to show the user all of the stats in one website.
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