Re: Some basic questions

On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, F. Jacot Guillarmod wrote:

> - is there a source for the accounting scripts other than via
> the WWW? Something is broken in the versions I've pulled
> across.

I found that (using perl 5.002) I needed the following changes to
squid-logs.pl:

diff squid-logs.pl squid-logs.pl.dist
18,19c18,19
< #unless (/^([\d\.]+) \S+ \S+ \[([^\]]+)\] "(\w+) ([^"]+)" (\w+)
(\d+)$/)
< #print STDERR "parse_common_log: Bad input, line $.\n";

---
>       unless (/^([\d\.]+) \S+ \S+ \[([^\]]+)\] "(\w+) ([^"]+)" (\w+)
(\d+)$/)
>               print STDERR "parse_common_log: Bad input, line $.\n";
21c21
<       #}
---
>       }
Why this should be I don't know - I am totally ignorant about perl!
It also took me a while to realise that the default method for writing the
logs (emulate_httpd_log on) was not what the scripts are expecting. 
Thinking about it now it seems to me that the two problems are probably
somewhat related.  Setting the emulate_httpd_log tag to off gave me some
meaningful output in the logs analysis.  Perhaps a warning addition to the
web page which details these analysis scripts about the required format of
the log files would be useful?
regards,
Adrian Bassett
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