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Logformat Problems
Hello everyone!

I've been messing around with LOGFORMAT, trying to get it working with our
non-standard log setup.

Unfortunately, there seem to be some rather weird errors going on.

LOGFORMAT (%v\t%j\t%t\t%s\t%u\t[%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j
%j]\t"%r"\t%c\t%b\t"%f"\t"%B") matches our real setup. All fields are tab
delimited, except for the date which is ISO compliant.

servername, gzip Ratio, processing time, client IP, username,
[DD/MMM/YYYY:HH:NN:SS -TZTZ], "Request", status code, size, "Referrer",
"Useragent"

However, analog thinks that all lines are corrupt, and the error seems to
point towards a different place in lines.

A sample (sanitized for our users protection):
C: server - - 1.2.3.4 - [27/Feb/2008:18:54:24
-0500] "GET /images/image.png HTTP/1.1" 200 4373 "
www.somesite.com" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US;)
Gecko/0000 Firefox/0000"
C: *

If we put a space where the first tab is (some of the tabs appear a space
long, but cat -e confirms they are actually tabs), it changes to this:
C: server - - 1.2.3.4 - [27/Feb/2008:18:54:24
-0500] "GET /images/image.png HTTP/1.1" 200 4373 "
www.somesite.com" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US;)
Gecko/0000 Firefox/0000"
C: *

I'm not sure what to do next, so I turn to you.

OS: FreeBSD
Analog version 6.0/Unix

-tsawolf