This is connrate, a script used to process your news.notice file and
generate XY plot file suitable for running with gnuplot.

The "mawk" interpreter is MUCH faster than most vendor versions of AWK,
and outperforms gawk on most machines, as well. Usually 50-200% faster
than the PERL scripts when available.

Looking at today's data
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$ cd YOUR_LOG_DIR
$ connrate
starting date Sep020
$

If you roll your logs after midnight, part of today's data is on
yesterday's compressed log. To get all of today's data:

$ cd YOUR_LOG_DIR
$ zcat OLD/news.notice.1 | connrate - news.notice
start date Sep019
start date Sep020
$

The data for yesterday will be incomplete.

Generating plots of several days
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$ cd YOUR_LOG_DIR
$ for n in 4 3 2 1; do zcat OLD/news.notice.$n; done |
> connrate -

This concatenates your logs for several days, and handles the case where
you roll the logs over at a time other than exactly midnight. Note that
if you do have an offset log rollover (most sites do) the plot data in
the first and last days plotfiles will be incomplete.
