Re: [squid-users] Re: Authentication on a load balanced squid

Hi Henrik,

Thanks for the info... I think my brain was out of gear at the time... I
didn't even consider the use of sort.

David

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> On Sunday 02 June 2002 03:58, David Beards wrote:
>
> > This is something I've been cosidering for a month or so now, but
> > how do you go about analyzing the log files?
>
> Depends on what you want to know from your log files.
>
> > We use authentication on our caches so we can keep tabs on the
> > amount of surfing users do and analyse the logs on a per user
> > basis. We tend to use SQMGRLOG to analyse the files, but I'm unsure
> > as to wheterh I'd be able to concatenate the files and then run log
> > analysis over them.
>
> For most log analyzis programs concatenation is fine, but mergeing the
> files from your Squid servers is probably recommended
>
> sort -o merged.log -m access-1.log access-2.log access-3.log...
>
> > Are you aware if this program would be able to (I know this isn't
> > your problem) or any analysis programs that would be able to cope
> > with log files having non sequential date stamps?
>
> As shown above, mergeing the files is a almost trivial task (and not
> very CPU intensive either) in UNIX so there is not really any reason
> to be worried about non-sequential date stamps..
>
> Regards
> Henrik

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