Known bugs and limitations

Sending bugs Please use the form to send bug report.


Bugs
  • On system with restricted length filename (Mac, Win3.11 or Archimedes), you can't use the highest level of precision which is 4. Archimedes users can download the !X-Files application which is able to solve this.

  • Your logfile should have at least one request by week. If not, date may shift.

  • You need to get the latest Perl version in order to parse logfile larger than 2 Gb (or you need to split your logfile).

  • URL mapping may fail with some awful HTML files (Bill, buy a HTML book please !). Users public html directories are not parse by the script in some case (to be fix).

  • Symbolic links works only in a few case (to be fix).

  • You need to get logfile at least two days long to compute something.

    If you find a bug, please send me the following informations by email or use the bug report form :

    1. Your w3perl URL
    2. W3Perl version
    3. Which script failed and its version (cron-xxx.pl -v)
    4. Which logfile are you using (one, splitted, compressed ?)
    5. Your config.pl file
    6. The name of your web server, your operating system
    7. The script output

  • Limitations
  • W3Perl will exit if date format is not the english one (answer : export LANG="eng" or setenv LANG eng)

  • W3Perl produces holes in the countries HTML page.
    Update your pays-conv file to add the new country.

  • W3Perl can't cope with more than 120 crunched logfiles or 10 years of logfiles. If you are using a webserver since 10 years, tell me !

    Feel free to send me bug report. You can also show me my english mistakes !

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