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Analog is a free web traffic analysis tool that prepares reports on activity on your web sites, including graphs that summarize hourly, daily, file size file type, visiting site, return codes and numerous other statistics that illustrate how your web sites are being used. I recently compiled and deployed Analog on a couple of Solaris 9 servers. Today's column is a how-to on building Analog and a quick introduction to how it works.



To compile Apache on a Solaris system, you should first grab a copy of the source code. I went to http://www.analog.cx/download.html and downloaded analog-6.0.tar.gz. This command should work on the command line if you have wget installed:



wget http://www.analog.cx/analog-6.0.tar.gz



I then gunzipped and extracted the contents of the downloaded file and attempted to compile the application:
$ gunzip analog-6.0.tar.gz
$ tar xf analog-6.0.tar
$ cd analog-6.0
$ make



My attempt to compile Analog ran into some problems -- notably undefined symbols.

        $ make
        cd src && make
        make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/henrystocker/analog-6.0/src'
        gcc            -O2      -DUNIX          -c alias.c
        gcc            -O2      -DUNIX          -c analog.c
        gcc            -O2      -DUNIX          -c cache.c
        ... omitted output ...
        Undefined                       first referenced
         symbol                             in file
        gethostbyaddr                       alias.o
        inet_addr                           alias.o
           

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