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Date:  Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:59:34 +0200
From:  Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:12264] Re: Cron error messages
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <00cd01c8852b$9d6b6c10$e5b418ac@dell>
In-Reply-To:  <200803130704.10173.lesmith (at mark) ecsis.net>
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> On Thu March 1 2007 08:10, Arthur Sherman wrote:
> > > One of our servers is sending me this everyday.
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/analog: analog version 5.32/Unix
> > > /usr/bin/analog: Warning L: Large number of corrupt lines 
> in logfile 
> > > stdin:
> > >   turn debugging on or try different LOGFORMAT
> > >   (For help on all errors and warnings, see docs/errors.html)
> > >     Current logfile format:
> > >       %v %S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%j%w%r%wHTTP%j" %c %b "%f" 
> > > "%B"\n
> > >       %S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%j%w%r%wHTTP%j" %c %b 
> "%f" "%B"\n
> > >       %S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%j%w%r" %c %b "%f" "%B"\n
> > >       %S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%r" %c %b "%f" "%B"\n
> > > /usr/bin/analog: analog version 5.32/Unix
> > > /usr/bin/analog: Warning L: Large number of corrupt lines 
> in logfile 
> > > stdin:
> > >   turn debugging on or try different LOGFORMAT
> > >   (For help on all errors and warnings, see docs/errors.html)
> > >     Current logfile format:
> > >       %v %S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%j%w%r%wHTTP%j" %c %b "%f" 
> > > "%B"\n
> > >       %S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%j%w%r%wHTTP%j" %c %b 
> "%f" "%B"\n
> > >       %S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%j%w%r" %c %b "%f" "%B"\n
> > >       %S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%r" %c %b "%f" "%B"\n
> > >
> > > Any one else seen this??
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Jason
> >
> > I have.
> > Did you have the basic firewall installed? It might be its 
> leftovers.
> > Unfortunatelly, I didn't get an answer how to deal with it.
> >
> 
> Jason, Arthur, et al.
> 
>   Ok, just started getting this on a server that I recently updated.
> Turns out it appears to be a difference in how Apache (httpd) 
> is logging versus what analog expects to see.  My answer 
> (that appears to have fixed it) was to edit the 
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and change the LogFormat line 
> as follows:
> 
> <quote>
> ##LogFormat "%v %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" 
> \"%{User-Agent}i\"" 
> combined
> LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" 
> \"%{User-Agent}i\"" 
> combined
> </quote>
> 
> Note I copied the line, commented the original out, then 
> deleted the %v and a space from the beginning of the line.  
> Your mileage may vary... but it stopped my error messages from cron.
> 
> --
> Larry Smith
> lesmith (at mark) ecsis.net

Thanks! I'll give it a try a inform the ML.


Best,
--

Arthur Sherman