problem with lr_log2report and --output html: /bin/tar: report: Cannot stat: No such file or directory (was: Re: Can´t get html report)

[Joost van Baal]

Hi,

[Cc-ing Mikael Kermorgant, since he reported this bug too.]

Op di  3 okt 2006 om 06:26:36 +0200 schreef Eva Gomez Hidalgo:
> Hello
> I have run:
> tai64nfrac </home/qmail-send/current | \
>   lr_log2report qmail --output html > /tmp/report.tar
> 
> And there is an empty report.rar.
> 
> However, if I run -- output xml it works all right. I suposse there is 
> something missing for html reports ¿is this posible?

You've found a bug.  This one is present in the lire 2.0.2-1 Debian
package (and in the current Lire CVS too).

lr_log2report indeed gives

 Formatting report as html in -...
 /bin/tar: report: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
 /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

when trying to read from stdin while generating html output.

Here's a workaround:

 joostvb at gelfand:~% tai64nfrac < /var/log/qmail-send/current > /tmp/log
 joostvb at gelfand:~% lr_log2report qmail --output html /tmp/log /tmp/report
 [...]
 Formatting report as html in /tmp/report...
 joostvb at gelfand:~% ls /tmp/report/
 deliveries-by-period.0.png  section-1.html  toc.png
 deliveries-by-period.1.png  section-2.html  top-from-domain.0.png
 email-email.html            section-3.html  top-status-by-domain.0.png
 email.html                  section-4.html  top-to-domain.0.png
 index.html                  section-5.html  top-volume-from-domain.0.png
 lire-html.css               section-6.html  top-volume-to-domain.0.png
 lire.png                    section-7.html  volume-by-period.0.png
 next.png                    section-8.html  volume-by-period.1.png
 prev.png                    summary.0.png

If you're on a GNU/Linux system, or on another system which understands
/dev/stdin, you can do it all in one step:

 joostvb at gelfand:~% tai64nfrac < /var/log/qmail-send/current | \
  lr_log2report qmail --output html /dev/stdin /tmp/report
 Parsing log file using qmail DLF Converter...
 Extracted 150 DLF records on 1079 lines.
 Encountered 0 errors and ignored 0 lines.
 Running analysers...
 Generating XML report...
 Formatting report as html in /tmp/report...
 joostvb at gelfand:~% ls /tmp/report 
 deliveries-by-period.0.png  section-1.html  toc.png
 deliveries-by-period.1.png  section-2.html  top-from-domain.0.png
 email-email.html            section-3.html  top-status-by-domain.0.png
 email.html                  section-4.html  top-to-domain.0.png
 index.html                  section-5.html  top-volume-from-domain.0.png
 lire-html.css               section-6.html  top-volume-to-domain.0.png
 lire.png                    section-7.html  volume-by-period.0.png
 next.png                    section-8.html  volume-by-period.1.png
 prev.png                    summary.0.png

For now, I've documented the bug in the lr_log2report manpage.

Thanks, Bye,

Joost

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