hello,

Looking for alternative ideas to parse the combined Apache log: /var/log/httpd/access_log (is how I named it)

What I've tried so far is a CPAN search, which pointed me to a recently created module called ApacheLog::Parser

From the C5 shell, I used something like this (heavily refined from how I started)

---------- sh script --------- #rpm --import http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL yum install ncftp --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel yum -y install perl-Test-Pod \ perl-YAML \ perl-Test-Pod-Coverage \ perl-Class-Accessor \ perl-IPC-Run \ perl-Time-modules \ perl-DateTime \ perl-Date-Simple perl -MCPAN -e 'install Class::Accessor::Classy' perl -MCPAN -e 'install Time::Piece' perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Piece' perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::Fu' # yum install perl-IPC-Run3 perl -MCPAN -e 'install Getopt::Helpful' perl -MCPAN -e 'install ApacheLog::Parser' ------------------ end snip -----------

the above worked on a fresh install of C5.2 with a LAMP setup. CPAN asked for ncftp in its setup.

I must have tried 50-60 commands before I settled on the abbreviated version above.

As an exercise, I took a shot at using cpan2rpm to package the tar.gz's into RPM's

the resulting RPM's are here: http://www.tlviewer.org/fostats they are signed with my RPM-GPG key http://www.tlviewer.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-mpryor.txt