Subj : Re: binkdstat
To : mark lewis
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Wed Jan 04 2017 01:08 am
-=> mark lewis wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
ml> On 2017 Jan 03 19:06:00, you wrote to All:
BM> Anyone having issues the the binkdstat not reading the log properly since
BM> the new year?
ml> are you rotating your logs properly? remember there's no year in the
ml> binkd log file format... i have been rotating mine monthly but it is a
ml> manual process where i grep out the month's data for stats processing
ml> and store it in another file... i saw what you are seeing and trimmed
ml> my log to cut out Dec 2016 and manually ran my stats (which you are
ml> using the same script) and they worked just fine...
ml> TLDR; trim your logs so that only 2017 data is in them... best to do
ml> this monthly so that a full month is in each log cutting and only the
ml> 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.
