On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Kevin Hemenway wrote: > Good day, again. > > Due to server changes and a bad logrotate.conf, my log files were NOT > correctly rotated on the seven day mark, as is typical. After the 7 day > mark, analog 5.03 analyzes the rotated files, makes caches, and then > analyzes the caches to create a "totals" report. > > Because of the bad conf file, I had to manually run the rotate command > today, creating a 9 day cycle. Running analog on the 9 day logs went pretty > much without a hitch, except for errors concerning "seven-day-statistics" > not being found within the 9 day cache file, and how "under-reporting" > (exact phrase forgotten, unfortunately) could occur. > > Here's my question: > > - will this "fix" itself when the logs are rotated the next > time (making a shorter week - only five days)? > > Is there anything else I should be worried about? > Is my "totals" report mussed up for all eternity?
7-day statistics are never recorded in the cache files (see docs/cache.html for the boring explanation). That's not a problem. It only ever records the totals, and they should still be fine whatever period you turn into a cache file. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
