On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 02:51:56AM -0700, t s a d i wrote: > http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/04/perl/ > > written by Randal Shwartz. > > Craig, thanks a lot for the script. would you also (and all other PERL > experts) take a look at Randal's scripts and maybe tell us what you > think ?
well, Randal is one of the gurus of perl so whatever he writes is bound to be good. his version depends on mod_perl. if you're happy to use mod_perl, then use either randal's script or libapache-dbilogger-perl (aka Apache::DBILog). if you want your logs in a database without the overhead of mod_perl, then use the ideas presented in my sample script, either by piping the logs directly into the script or by processing a log file with a cron job every half hour or so. the cron job variant is probably safer and less load on the system, but you're trading off the instant gratification of up-to-the-second stats - the stats summary will always be up to half an hour behind. OTOH if you're doing that, you may as well just feed it into webalizer every half hour...it does a lot more, including generation of pretty graphs. craig -- craig sanders
