dorian fraser moore

Analog & RealMedia G2 Server Logs

How to analyse logfiles from a RealServer

Having been running various server for RealAudio provision over the last few years I've never really kept an eye on the logfiles, primarily because I didn't want to install Java for the progressive networks log file analyse. However having set up PostEverything I wanted to check what the usage for the RealMedia files was ... so I installed Analog and configured it using the following LOGFORMAT line

LOGFORMAT (%s - - [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j %j]%w"%j %r %j" %c %b %j %j %j %j)

So, why am I sharing this with you? Because I spent time looking for this information and couldn't find it. I knew it was possible, but awkward: there is an extra space between the date and the request line, which doesn't exist in standard log files, which makes this a little bit unobvious.

Hopefully this will help somebody, someday.