Chuck Schick wrote:
> Then is the flaw with analog?
No because IIS does not always include the #Date: header when days change, so
that isn't necessarilly reliable. Putting the date on every line is reliable.
> From what I see, analog will only process the
> lines if the date is on the line, otherwise it returns a "corrupt line"
> message.
Yes.
> My point is that the default settings under IIS 4.0 create a log
> file that cannot be properly interpreted by Analog
The default settings for IIS (4.0 at least) is MicroSoft log format. Which
Analog recognizes without problems or settings.
> with running the
> preprocessor (which I was aware of but my single attempt at running proved
> unsuccessful).
You don't need to use the preprocessor except to recover logfiles from before
you made the change to support Analog. It makes much more sense to change to
format on the server (adding the date to the items logged by IIS in W3C format
is very simple) than running the preprocessor every night.
> I think it is something that people running NT servers need to be aware of if
> they want to use analog for their web statistics. ( Note: I am refferring to
> using the W3C Extended Log File Format.)
As in this?
1.Some log formats are not very well designed and analog
can't analyse them reliably. In this case it will give up, usually
with a helpful message, rather than risk doing a bad job.
For example, you might get "Logfile with ambiguous dates"
or "Time without date." In this case you should read the notes
on all the built-in formats below where some common
problems with those formats are described.
>From the file docs/logfile.html? :)
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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