[SlugBug] Webalizer not reading appended log file

[David Hooper]

Matt

> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:27:36PM +0100, David Hooper wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I've recently transfered the hosting of a website over to a new physical 
>> server to improve performance.  The new server was running in parallel 
>>with the old for about a month.
>>
>>I now need to merge the old log files with the new access files - so I 
>>still have all my old statistics.  I've copied over all the log files 
>>and appended them to the new log files.
> 
> 
> Webalizer ignore log entries for dates it's already seen.


> So if you have log entries like
> 
> 2004-08-01 12:00
> 2004-08-02 12:00
> 2004-08-03 12:00
> 2004-08-01 12:00 <-- ignored
> 2004-08-02 12:00 <-- ignored
> 
> 
> If your two logs cover the same time period, you'll need to merge them
> some how.

Thanks for this, unfortunately its not only possible duplicate dates in 
the log that are ignored.  I have statistics from quite a while back 
which have not been read.

Bruno mentioned it could be a sequencing issue, and that they may need 
stripping out (Thanks).  I reinitialized webalizer using -f and got;

[new_unode] Warning: String exceeds storage size

STW for this but will need to look into further, I'll report back 
anything significant.

*Shot in the dark*
I have also been sniffing around webalizer.conf and this refers to a 
webalizer.hist. "The history file keeps the data for up to 12 months 
worth of logs" my logs were over 12 months old could this be a possible 
cause of my problem.

Regards
David.

-- 
David Hooper
Technical Assistant
Community Media Association