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Originally Posted by yochoylamuete
You can do that using a batch file on a Windows platform (I do it with my own stats program). But you can't compile stats without closing the server, since the log file remains open as long as the server is active.
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This is not true. While the file is locked (you can't delete it.....or perhaps even COPY it ...havent tried) You can still read from it.
What I do to keep track of the logfile so that as it grows it can be re-read for only new lines added to qconsole.log is this:
TYPE qconsole.log >qconsole.txt
(take snapshot of qconsole.log)
(if server is REMOTE you can do the TYPE thru telnet/ssh then ftp/network a copy down the parsing machine...if linux server use cat intead of type)
DIR|FIND "qconsole.bak"
IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO compare
TYPE qconsole.txt >qconsole.bak
REM check for existence, if not create, if exists skip TYPE line.
REM knowing it didn't exist since the GOTO line above wasn't invoked
REM I skip the COMPARE label below
GOTO 1stpass
:compare
FC qconsole.txt qconsole.bak >difference.txt
(the above line will find only those lines added to the qconsole.log file since we took our "snapshot" above....this avoids counting the same deaths/kills twice)
REM now replace qconsole.bak with the latest snapshot
TYPE qconsole.txt >qconsole.bak
(now parse difference.txt)
:1stpass
(now parse the copy of qconsole.bak created above)
To differentiate between different qconsole.log sessions.. ie: comparing the backup of the log to a completly new log so as to not screw up the stats in any way I also keep a backed up copy of the the first 10 people that entered the battle on the server since it started. If the log i'm currently parsing doesn't have the same 10 people entering in the exact same order,
I then know to it's a new logfile altogether and to parse it as a 1st pass (goto 1stpass) instead of using FC to get only the differences.(newest added lines since last pass)
This is my template for the stats HTML. I'm not fully finished the batchfile yet and am going to make it so you can change the look of the stats to suit any webpage just by substituting another template.html file.
[img]http://www.control-alt-delete.ca/mohaa/template.JPG[/img]