[analog-help] New at this : why can't I get FROM and TO to work?

[Aengus]

On Saturday, May 05, 2007 2:06 PM [EDT],
Jonathan D. Gilman <tavieadmin at octavia.net> wrote:

> Stephen Turner wrote:
>> On 02/05/07, Jonathan D. Gilman <tavieadmin at octavia.net> wrote:
>>> can't seem to get the FROM and TO syntax to work.  No matter what
>>> dates I use, analog
>>> always seems to be processing the last 7 days only:
>>>
>>
>> Probably the logfile you're analysing only contains data from the
>> last week.
>>
> No that is not the issue:
>
> Top of file:
> 65.204.60.2 69.89.27.250 - [02/Apr/2007:11:38:03 -0600] "GET
> /~octavia2 HTTP/1.1" 301 315 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
> 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3" - 30844
> 69.89.27.250 65.204.60.2 69.89.27.250 - [02/Apr/2007:11:38:03 -0600] "GET
> /~octavia2/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4918 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows
> NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3" - 30844
> 69.89.27.250
> Bottom of file:
> 74.6.85.160 - - [30/Apr/2007:09:38:23 -0600] "GET /travelkit/
> HTTP/1.0" 200 1391 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp;
> http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
> 74.6.86.198 - - [30/Apr/2007:09:38:54 -0600] "GET /travelkit/?D=A
> HTTP/1.0" 200 1391 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp;
> http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
>
> Could it be the format?  The host site is running apache so I've been
> assuming that the fileformat would not need to called out.  Am I
> mistaken?

Those two sets of lines aren't in the same format, so the first 2 lines are 
ignored as "Corrupt Lines". Running Analog against those 4 lines gives:

Earliest entry in logfile: 30/Apr/07:0938
Latest entry in logfile: 30/Apr/07:0938

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