• RE: help needed

    From Steven Sheeley@1:275/97 to mark lewis on Mon Jan 30 08:06:00 2017
    Re: Help needed
    By: mark lewis to Steven Sheeley on Sun Jan 29 2017 20:27:58

    I want to pull information from the log files and store in a database to create stats bulletins and to display specific parts of the log file on the main form, such as last inbound connection and last outbound connection for the mailer, etc, etc, etc.

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  • From Steven Sheeley@1:275/97 to mark lewis on Mon Jan 30 08:06:00 2017
    Re: Help needed
    By: mark lewis to Steven Sheeley on Sun Jan 29 2017 20:27:58

    I want to pull information from the log files and store in a database to create stats bulletins and to display specific parts of the log file on the main form, such as last inbound connection and last outbound connection for the mailer, etc, etc, etc.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Steven Sheeley on Mon Jan 30 12:14:14 2017
    On 2017 Jan 30 08:06:00, you wrote to me:

    I want to pull information from the log files and store in a database to create stats bulletins and to display specific parts of the log file on
    the
    main form, such as last inbound connection and last outbound connection
    for
    the mailer, etc, etc, etc.

    ok, that should be pretty straight forward, then... simply read the line and break it into specific parts... then use those parts for the tallying... some logs carry log level indicators before the datetime stamp... some have the date
    at the top of the section and only the timestamp on each line... aside from that it is just a matter of reading the log and deciding which lines you need to keep and tally as well as being able to detect which systems are contacted outbound or have contacted inbound so overall tallys as well as inbound and outbound can be kept...

    it is your average tedious log analysis stuff, that's for sure... i find it in the same realm as BBS stats on users' data, BBS usage and even file uploading/downloading as well as message postings ;)

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