Ay, but this was part of a list clean-up and we had lists that had NEVER 
been used in the log window. Believe me, I'll be celebrating when I see 
our current Listserv box drop off the top-20 page. FWIW- we're talking 
about 6 or 7 GB of logs.

Bill Brown wrote:
>> Once upon a time, I had to do something similar. I moved the logs to our
>> research computing machine and wrote a multithreaded perl script to do
>> the scanning and analysis. Using 6 of the 8 processors, the job took ~4
>> days to run, and that was with only about 10 months of logs. Hope your
>> site doesn't see too much volume, and with 2 years of logs to search, I
>> hope you have some cpu cycles to spare
>>     
>
> How big were the log files you were looking at? 
>
> Since the goal of the original request was to see the last post in each 
> list, could you have jsut done "tail -50" (or whatever number would mnake 
> sense) on each log and processed the results of that rather than looking 
> at the beginning of the log since that info would be superceded by 
> subsequent lines in the log?
>   

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