using faststats and dynamic logfiles?

[bliss322]

we're using faststats mach 5 analyzer to process our logs.

some of our logfiles are named jul03.log or 0307.log, you get the idea. is there a list of codes i can use to represent the changing nature of these logfiles (i.e. mmyy.log or yyymm.log) so i don't have to go in every month and change the logfile name prior to processing the report?

[Brett_Tabke]

Good question. I run into it with log files being dates. I don't think there is a way around it short of a small script that renames your log files.

[wkitty42]

what environment?

on my apache system running on OS/2, i use a logfile util that the logfile is piped into... the util automatically names my logfiles for me... each month, a new acYYYYMM.log file is created...

my webalizer is kicked off via a script that determines the current year and month and uses that on the commandline to tell webalizer what log file to analyze... i run webalizer all the time... i think it fires off every 5 or 10 minutes so that i get pretty uptodate analysis of the activities on my servers and domains...

surely a util such as i mention can be whipped up for other environments... however, i don't know if IIS can have its logs piped into another program if you are running that beast...