On 11/27/10 9:45 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:45:47 -0800 Dave Stevens wrote:
wouldn't webalyzer do that for you?
Webalyzer would create a report containing a lot of data that I don't need. All I want is a single number.
I've always liked analog as web log analyzer. It's fast and you can make it generate as much or as little as you want - but it would normally be a once-a-day run, not a live update.
The perl script that Tommy Craddock found looks like it's just the thing. I'll set it up over the course of this next week and see what develops.
That may work for a small site. I wouldn't expect anything that locks a single file for updates on every hit to scale well. And it means you need to have somewhere that is writable by the web server which is not a great idea if you can avoid it.