[analog-help] Merging log files

[Jackie Meese]

On May 1, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Aengus wrote:

> Mick Burrell <mick at midtowncottages.co.uk> wrote:
>> I have a site on a server which produces log files in what seems to
>> be plain text (type .log) and compressed (type .gz). Analog handles
>> these just fine but the server only keeps them for three weeks. I'd
>> like to be able to download these on a weekly basis and merge the
>> files to produce a monthly (or longer period) report. I realise I
>> can't just duplicate the files or I'd get repeat entries.
>
> You don't need to merge the logfiles - Analog can read multiple
> logfiles.
>
> The simplest solution is add the "historical" files to a zip file, and
> just run Analog against this zip file. The rather more complex  
> approach
> to creating progressive logs is to use cache files, but unless your  
> log
> files are very large, it may not be worth the effort.
>
> http://analog.cx/docs/cache.html

If you really want to keep them merged, this will do what you're  
looking for:
http://mergelog.sourceforge.net/

It's used for merging clustered/round robin web server, and is handy  
for manually looking at the logs, but for analog it is unnecessary.

j.
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