Re: [cobalt-users] Webalizer: Warning: Truncating oversized hostname

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Shailes wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have a client who has a site that is a php role playing game. For about
> the last month Webalizer ain't been able to process the logs and they don't
> even have a page for Jan 2002 yet.
> 
> I have spend a few hours looking at this issue now and noticed webalizer
> comes back with "Warning: Truncating oversized hostname"

ahh, yes, you have a client with one of those friendly sites that makes
humungous URL's , when hit by an old browser the browser goes poof ;P

> /visit.php?step=gym&function=th&uid=362f463701a8d13747b854d39f7002c5

> Is this the problem and how can I fix it, will webalizer 1.3 not cope with
> this? Does version 2?

It's not an error, it's only a warning that it chopped off the log line
because it was unreasonably long...It should still process the logs...

> I did look at the archives but didn't see anything about Truncating
> oversized hostname.

Webalizer 1.3.0 has a bug, it won't process logs anymore because of a date
issue....did you install the updated version?

http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2001-October/033982.html

Did you run out of disk space ? in addition to the 70M of logs, you need
space to process them to make the stats files....

ps: I think if you really are annoued with the oversized thing you can
patch it and recompile it to have a longer allowed line length , tho i
may be thing of analog here...given that your log lines seem to have
unique session stamps in them, it'snot gonna make much difference in the
stats anyhow....

gsh