On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Owen McShane wrote:
> 
> It would appear that as the logs are not in strict chronological order (i.e.  
> they alternate with 15 minutes from one server, followed by the same 15 
> minutes from the other server), Webtrends does not correctly analyse them.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way around this?

I strongly suspect that any program which purpoted to analyse "visits" would
require the logfiles to be in chronological order to make the calculation
tractable. As you have discovered, real logfiles sometimes aren't in order,
which is why analog produces the same results however you shuffle the lines.

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Stephen Turner               http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
  Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England
  "The new operating system will recover more easily from system crashes."
                          (Microsoft, aiming high with Windows Millennium)

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