Overview
Remote log files, such as those transferred via ftp or http during processing, cannot be configured using the same wildcard expressions available for local log files. However, it is possible to use a date-stamp expression, such as YYMMDD or YYYYMMDD.
Wildcards, such as *, allow Urchin to grab multiple files with one log file name entry. This is not available for remote logs for two reasons. First, it is very easy to inadvertently download entire filesystems with the standard FTP "mget" function. Second, the ftp/http routines are much more complex to manage if more than one file is being accessed at the same time.
Users should either download the remote logs before running Urchin (logs can be concatenated before doing so), or create a separate entry for each remote source. The YYMMDD syntax is available in remote log file specifications to allow automatic processing of remote logs that are on a rotation schedule.
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