2009-07-03 17:49:23 UTC
ah, I do hate to be a bother, but that's not it. I've been using AWStats to make shiny reports for over a year now, and since I make monthly reports for the previous month, I always have to include the month and year in the second command. Let me just reiterate what my real issue seems to be
1. I download a month's worth of log files from production.
2. The logs have an odd format, which I represent thus
LogFormat="%host %other %logname %time1 %other %other %method %url %code %bytesd %referer %ua"
when I run awstats.pl.
3. AWStats runs fine, and tells me the following output
Phase 1 : First bypass old records, searching new record...
Searching new records from beginning of log file...
Phase 2 : Now process new records (Flush history on disk after 20000 hosts)...
Jumped lines in file: 0
Parsed lines in file: 3740883
Found 2175150 dropped records,
Found 6 corrupted records,
Found 2 old records,
Found 1565725 new qualified records.
(I know that's a lot of drops, it's because I don't particularly care about downloading images, or internal administrative functions, or what have you.)
4. I call awstats_buildstaticpages.pl with the awstatsprog option, the config option, and the month and the year.
The static pages out the other end tell me that although over a million rows have been processed by AWStats, none of these was actually a 'hit'. Since this was working when I was using 'LogFormat=1', I must assume that while the LogFormat seems to let AWStats do the right thing, that the internal DB file becomes empty anyway.
