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If you are getting “abort due to problem” for apache access logs for dummy records when your run mergelog (or zmergelog) then you fix the problem as follows:

1. Open mergelog.c file under src folder
2. Look for #define SCAN_OFFSET 9
3. Change it to #define SCAN_OFFSET 7

That’s all.

The problem is that the mergelog looks for the date string starting from 9th character (as set by SCAN_OFFSET) of a record.
With this changes it will look from 7th character. In a dummy record below the date field starts from 8th charachter.

::1 – - [13/Dec/2009:00:00:06 +0800] “OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “God is Love (internal dummy connection)”

Changing SCAN_OFFSET to 7, mergelog starts looking for the date field ( [13/Dec/2009:00:00:06 +0800]) from 7th character.

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