re : Re: [Fase-developer] File Parser

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 Alex:

 AFAIK once logfiles parsed then we could generate statistics, isn't this the point? Am I missing something?

 mazza.


Posté par Alex le 10/1.


I thought the whole point of parseing the log files was to
get the data in a database. If it's not. Then what will anyone
else be doing once that logfiles are parsed?


On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Fabio A Mazzarino wrote:

>
>  KISS - Keep It Spetaculary Simple.
>
>  There are other interpretations but it basicaly means *Keep It Simple*.
>
>  File permission is not a problem, users always have some disk area, if
> don't it means that they shouldn't be able to retrieve information about
> apache logs.
>
>  Fetching data from file only takes too long if files are too big, this
> would be solved by log-rotating and consolidating logs, I think that
> performance won't be a problem.
>
>  Avoiding a database connection make the software much more avaiable for
> most users, since a database manager is not required.
>
>  Ow, I forgot to suggest another thing. Maybe a scretch of the whole
> system and future modules would be interesting so we have something to
> aim. Also a feature list for v0.1 and v0.2 should be interesting (don't
> forget: release small, release often)
>
>  Well, Even, I think that these two last task is about you, we can only
> suggest. ;o)
>
>  Waiting for your answer ;o)
>
>  mazza
>
>
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> Looking for a better .sig. Suggestions are being accepted.
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>
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Even André Fiskvik wrote:
>
> !On fredag, jan 10, 2003, at 01:09 Europe/Oslo, Fabio A Mazzarino wrote:
> !
> !>
> !>  Hi folks:
> !>
> !>  I'd like to make some suggestions.
> !>
> !>  1. I agree that it's better to use Apache::ParseLog. It's the Perl
> !> way,
> !> and it's a best pratice for programming: Lazyness
> !>
> !>  2. Is a database connectio *really* necessary? Maybe it's a good idea
> !> to
> !> rotate logs and consolidate them in a separete file, and then parse
> !> each
> !> time required. I mean, just like KISS ;o)
> !>  What do you think about it?
> !>
> !>  mazza
> !
> !What's KISS? And no, a database connection isn't really necessary, but
> !users wouldn't have
> !to worry about file permissions? When coming to think of it, it might
> !not be too bad an idea to
> !generate the statistics for a domain in it's own file. Then you
> !wouldn't have to think about having
> !a database server set-up, and we wouldn't need to think about the
> !database abstraction to
> !support them all.
> !Anyone know what takes up most resources/takes most time, fetching the
> !data from a database or a file?
> !
> !- Even André
> !