Re: [squid-users] Re: Help with sarg usage

2008-06-20 Thread Chris Robertson
Richard Chapman wrote: Hi Chris - and many many thanks... See also below. You have two choices with SARG. The first is the simplest, but might not meet your needs. Make sure in your sarg.conf file the report_type directive includes users_sites and date_time and/or site_user_time_date.

Re: Re: [squid-users] Re: Help with sarg usage

2008-06-19 Thread Richard Chapman
Hi Chris - and many many thanks... See also below. /path/to/sarg -l /var/log/squid/access.log -l /var/log/squid/access.log.1 -l /var/log/squid/access.log.2.gz will parse the data from access.log, access.log.1 and (after gunzipping) access.log.2.gz, and will give you one report for the time

Re: [squid-users] Re: Help with sarg usage

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Robertson
Richard Chapman wrote: I also can't find a way to make it cover further back than the current squid log file - though the daily and weekly reports will presumably go further back. /path/to/sarg -l /var/log/squid/access.log -l /var/log/squid/access.log.1 -l /var/log/squid/access.log.2.gz

[squid-users] Re: Help with sarg usage

2008-06-17 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
In any case - the report seems to cover the whole period of the log. Even though the report is generates every 30 minutes - it appears to cover the whole squid log period. YES Is there any way to restrict the report to a short period (say 1 hour) of within the coverage of the squid log. I

[squid-users] Re: Help with sarg usage

2008-06-16 Thread Richard Chapman
Hi Indunil Yes. That did help quite a bit. I had actually seen the link before from a google search - but hadn't studied it properly. It certainly explains my forbidden problem. I think I found a missing step though. The step by step instructions do not tell you to make sarg.cron executable -

[squid-users] Re: Help with sarg usage

2008-06-16 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
Yes. That did help quite a bit. I had actually seen the link before from a google search - but hadn't studied it properly. It certainly explains my forbidden problem. I think I found a missing step though. The step by step instructions do not tell you to make sarg.cron executable - so the cron

[squid-users] Re: Help with sarg usage

2008-06-16 Thread Richard Chapman
Hi again Indunil - and many thanks. I think I have sarg working - at least to the point of generating regular report files as suggested in your step by step instructions. I had already set execute bit on sarg.cron. I set the cron job to run every 30 minutes - and it appears to be doing just

[squid-users] Re: Help with sarg usage

2008-06-16 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
The cron job seems to create a new report every 30 minutes - and delete the old one. Yes, that's right. The new report covers the full period (presumably) covered by the current squid log file - until the time the report is generated. Yes, that's right. I can't find a way to narrow down the

[squid-users] Re: Help with sarg usage

2008-06-16 Thread Richard Chapman
Hi again Indunil Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: I can't find a way to narrow down the time window of the report. I also can't find a way to make it cover further back than the current squid log file - What do u mean ? do you need older data than the current report No. I don't think so.

[squid-users] Re: Help with sarg usage

2008-06-15 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
Hi Richard, I hope this may help you. http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200805/0172.html On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Richard Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have satrg installed and working - but have not found much documentation other than the man pages -