I use awstats to report on my server logs. I missed a couple days and wanted to go back and generate the full history in chronological order (AWStats requirement). I have a local copy of all my log files in compressed .gz format, and due to the fact that I use rsync with cron to copy them off my live site, I do not want to convert them all to uncompressed files locally. That plus the fact that awstats can read from gzip if done properly.
I wrote a short shell script to try to run awstats in chronological order (see below) I found out that even when you supply the -logfile='' parameter on the command line, that the config file must still have a valid value for logFile, so I set that manually to be the first log file that I have. In subsequent loops, that data should be ignored as 'old records'. I also found that even though backticks work on the command line to gunzip the log, it didn't work in bash shell. So I tried to use another variable assignment to hold the contents of the uncompressed log file. This is probably a bad idea, because it will take up all memory, so I guess I need to modify the script to write a temporary file, and then remove it, or otherwise figure out how to get the pipe to work. Since I was not able to get the script to work, I would appreciate any comments on how to do this properly. #!/bin/bash for n in /var/log/httpd/www*.gz do /path/to/my/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=www.buzgate.org -update -logfile=`gzip -d <$n |` echo "processing $n" sleep 3m done echo "All log files processed successfully." -- Greg Rundlett Sr. Internet Systems Architect Knowledge Institute creators of the Business Utility Zone Gateway at www.buzgate.org (603) 642-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
