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[Wytze van der Raay]

Alessandro Galluzzo wrote:
> Hi, thank you for your lovableness and now i tell you my situation:
>  
> SO: Red Hat 9
> Lire:2.0.1 that we use to report log from squid proxy

OK, I am running with that same environment.

> ...it report to stderr this messages
> 
> *bogus message: Log file was compressed using gzip.*
> 
> *bogus message: Decompressing log file using /bin/gzip... *

The "bogus message" prefix is fabricated by lr_run. As of Lire 2.0,
you should not use lr_run anymore in combination with lr_log2report.
As noted in the Lire 2.0 NEWS file:

- Changes to lr_log2report, lr_log2mail, lr_xml2mail and lr_xml2report
  <snip>
  * The commands now output legible messages on STDERR (they do not use
    the old lire logging format). As a consequence, they shouldn't be run
    under lr_run.

> *bogus message: lr_log2report: WARNING Wide character in print at
> /usr/local/share/perl5/Lire/LrCommand.pm line 470.*

This message is not produced by Lire itself, but by Perl's unicode character
handling code. I presume that Lire's unicode handling may have a bug here
(but I am completely unqualified to talk about that ...). Anyway, as there
are only a few of these warnings, this does not seem a big problem for the
report.

> ... 
> *bogus message: Parsing log file using squid_access DLF Converter...*
> 
> *bogus message: Extracted 187945 DLF records on 187945 lines.*
> 
> *bogus message: Encountered 0 errors and ignored 0 lines.*

This looks good to me.

> *bogus message: Running analysers... *
> 
> *bogus message: Generating XML report... *
> 
> *bogus message: lr_log2report: WARNING Argument "6,094" isn't numeric in
> numeric lt (<) at /usr/local/share/perl5/Lire/SQLExt/LrRangegroup.pm
> line 27.*

This is most likely caused by a locale problem. I've never seen these
warnings until now, but I am always running with LANG=en_US.
When I set LANG=it_IT and run the same command again, I am getting exactly
the same type of error messages as you are reporting. Looking at the
resulting report, I notice that all floating point numbers are shown
with a decimal comma (as probably customary in the Italian locale) instead
of with a decimal dot (as customary in the English/US locale).
It looks to me that the Lire code needs some improvement of its
internationalization support here (but again, I am not an expert on
this matter).

> From this script:....
> 
> *lr_run lr_log2report -c /home/lire/lire-2.0.1/proxy/proxy.cfg
> squid_access </var/log/squid/access.log.1.gz > lire.log *

For now you can get rid of most warnings by running it like:

  LANG=en_US lr_log2report -c /home/lire/lire-2.0.1/proxy/proxy.cfg \
	squid_access </var/log/squid/access.log.1.gz > lire.log	

Hopefully, some Lire/Perl internationalization expert can take a look
at a real solution for this problem.

Kind regards,
Wytze van der Raay

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