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    From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to All on Tuesday, January 03, 2017 19:06:00
    Hiya All...

    Anyone having issues the the binkdstat not reading the log properly since the new year?


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  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/10 to Bill McGarrity on Tuesday, January 03, 2017 21:07:38
    Hello Bill,

    On Tue Jan 03 2017 19:06:00, Bill McGarrity wrote to All:

    Anyone having issues the the binkdstat not reading the log properly
    since the new year?

    I don't believe so. What kind of issues are you having?

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Bill McGarrity on Tuesday, January 03, 2017 20:26:10

    On 2017 Jan 03 19:06:00, you wrote to All:

    Anyone having issues the the binkdstat not reading the log properly since the new year?

    are you rotating your logs properly? remember there's no year in the binkd log file format... i have been rotating mine monthly but it is a manual process where i grep out the month's data for stats processing and store it in another file... i saw what you are seeing and trimmed my log to cut out Dec 2016 and manually ran my stats (which you are using the same script) and they worked just fine...

    TLDR; trim your logs so that only 2017 data is in them... best to do this monthly so that a full month is in each log cutting and only the current month is in the live log...

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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to mark lewis on Wednesday, January 04, 2017 01:08:00
    mark lewis wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-


    On 2017 Jan 03 19:06:00, you wrote to All:

    Anyone having issues the the binkdstat not reading the log properly since the new year?

    are you rotating your logs properly? remember there's no year in the
    binkd log file format... i have been rotating mine monthly but it is a manual process where i grep out the month's data for stats processing
    and store it in another file... i saw what you are seeing and trimmed
    my log to cut out Dec 2016 and manually ran my stats (which you are
    using the same script) and they worked just fine...

    TLDR; trim your logs so that only 2017 data is in them... best to do
    this monthly so that a full month is in each log cutting and only the current month is in the live log...

    Thank you sir... that seems to have done the trick. I usually leave the previous month in the logs and never had an issue. Guess change of year screws with the script.


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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Nicholas Boel on Wednesday, January 04, 2017 01:10:00
    Hiya Nick...

    Nicholas Boel wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-


    On Tue Jan 03 2017 19:06:00, Bill McGarrity wrote to All:

    Anyone having issues the the binkdstat not reading the log properly
    since the new year?

    I don't believe so. What kind of issues are you having?

    Mark explained it to me. Seems as if the perl script we both use chokes on the log during change of years. I normally trim the log and only go back a month but I had to remove December and it worked.

    Thanks!!


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  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/10 to Bill McGarrity on Wednesday, January 04, 2017 21:30:24
    Hello Bill,

    On Wed Jan 04 2017 01:10:00, Bill McGarrity wrote to Nicholas Boel:

    Mark explained it to me. Seems as if the perl script we both use
    chokes on the log during change of years. I normally trim the log and only go back a month but I had to remove December and it worked.

    Ah. That would probably explain why I didn't have any issues. I rotate my binkd
    logs daily, and my report only shows one day's worth of statistics.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Nicholas Boel on Thursday, January 05, 2017 01:05:00
    Hiya Nick...

    Nicholas Boel wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

    On Wed Jan 04 2017 01:10:00, Bill McGarrity wrote to Nicholas Boel:

    Mark explained it to me. Seems as if the perl script we both use
    chokes on the log during change of years. I normally trim the log and only go back a month but I had to remove December and it worked.

    Ah. That would probably explain why I didn't have any issues. I rotate
    my binkd logs daily, and my report only shows one day's worth of statistics.

    You got it!! ;)


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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Bill McGarrity on Thursday, January 05, 2017 06:59:26

    On 2017 Jan 04 01:08:00, you wrote to me:

    TLDR; trim your logs so that only 2017 data is in them... best to do
    this monthly so that a full month is in each log cutting and only the
    current month is in the live log...

    Thank you sir... that seems to have done the trick. I usually leave
    the previous month in the logs and never had an issue. Guess change
    of year screws with the script.

    yes, for some reason the year change does... not sure why and probably won't dig in to try to figure it out... you can actually leave the entire year's data
    in the log but it will be a huge log and the processing will take longer and longer as the log gets bigger... but the year roll over problem will remain... kinda sucks that there's no year in the log format as that would be very helpful but *nix logging formats don't have the year either... oh well... glad you got it sussed...

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