Chapter 3. Running Lire

Table of Contents

Lire's configuration system
Using A Responder
Generating A Report From A Log File
Selecting Output Format
Merging Reports
Gotchas
Sending Anonymized Log Files To A Responder
Processing The Responder's Results
Running Lire In A Server Cluster
Using Mail

This chapter describes the various ways that you can use Lire to process log files to generate reports. The next chapter (Chapter 4, Using DLF Stores) explains how you can set up your system to process your log files automatically at regular interval.

Lire's configuration system

Lire holds its configuration in XML files. To change Lire settings, simply fire up lire from a terminal and select the Lire->Preferences menu. From there you can change various settings. To save your customized configuration file, press the OK button. press the. Otherwise the changes Your changes will be saved in the file HOME/.lire/config.xml. These settings will only affect your account.

From the Preferences screen, you can change the path to all the external programs that Lire used. This is useful if you installed external programs that weren't present when you built and installed Lire. It is also to place to tewak various settings affecting how the reports are generated.

The list and purpose of each settings is described in the help window while using the tool. The lire command is also used to manage DlfStore and is described more fully in the chapter chapter (Chapter 4, Using DLF Stores).