New LogReport package, new responder

[Joost van Baal]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:20:46PM +0100, Wytze van der Raay wrote:
> Joost van Baal wrote:
> 
> > And, more important: a new LogReport package,
> > lire-20010318.tar.gz, has been uploaded on
> > http://www.logreport.org/pub.
> >
> > * Added lr_config script, for easier configuration.
> 
> The lr_config script is a very nice feature!

Thanks :)

> I think it makes the setup of logreport by a new sysadm a lot easier.
> It didn't quite do what I wanted it to do though -- I'd like to have
> the capability to specify processing of multiple logfiles in one run.
> I found a way around that by specifying a dummy log file, and a filter
> definition like
>     filter="zcat -f /var/log/httpd/access_log*"
> (by editing the etc/lire/*/weekly.1.local file afterwards);
> I don't know if that's the proper way to do it though .....

There is no proper way to do this yet.  I'd like to write something like
a logfile splitter and merger, which splits and merges a bunch of 
consecutive logfiles to one new file per day.  Untill then, your trick
is a good way to do it.  I bet /dev/null was your dummy log file?

> On a different subject: the timestamps in the report header appear to
> be off by 25 hours.  E.g. when I process a logfile containing records
> with timestamps between Sun Mar 11 04:59:49 and Sun Mar 18 03:34:30,
> the report header claims to report over the period:
>     Mon Mar 12 05:59:49 2001 - Mon Mar 19 04:34:30 2001
> Any ideas about that???

Oops.  That's bad.  Thanks a lot for reporting this!  I've found the
bug and I'm working on it now.  I'll upload a new tarball once that's
fixed.

Bye,

Joost

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