I'm not sure if this query is relevant to this forum but here goes anyways...

I want analyse log files that do not appear to be of standard format. I have tried using Analog but cannot config it to read the files.

Does anyone have any advice on working with log files taken from a Unix (Solaris) server?

Thanks.

don't know what 'Analog' is, but.... posting a sample log file and defining the term 'analyse' could help.

Analog: WWW logfile analysis

Looks like I have an event log rather than a web log.

Are there tools for examining event logs?

Others might know - I don't.

Usually you work with the tools that come with about every Unix/Linux. Some of them are grep, sort, cut, uniq, sed, awk, and so on.

Have a look at the LogFile and LogFormat directives in the httpd.conf, they should tell you what format is used, it many not be unified log format.

EDIT, jut read the last post.


Can you provide a sample event? What is generating the events?

Here are the first few lines for the logfile in question:

Ideally I would like to get an 'extract' of the Current user count value for each day or hour. I've no idea to go about it.

Someone else has managed to do something similar here:
WebCT Log Analyzer - Main Page

I have contacted them but have not received a reply.

Any ideas how I can setup something the same/similar?

Cheers