# Extended Logging

Instead of simple log files, intended to be viewed by system operator, Argus also logs additional files:

    access_log
| Common chronology of transferred files in NCSA format
    agent_log
| Common chronology of remote mailer types in NCSA format
    binary_log
| Common chronology of sessions and transferred files and bytes in binary format

NCSA logs `access_log` and `agent_log` are possible to analyse by any NCSA-compliant log analiser. The example of such analysis is available at `http://www.ritlabs.com/stat/argus.html` - the most recent statistics of RIT Zeppelin Fido Server (2:469/38), produced by analog2.11/Win32 © Stephen R. E. Turner.

The structure format of binary log file `binary_log` is compatible with the same in T-Mail © Andy Elkin and BinkD © Dima Maloff. Use T-Hist © Michael Markowsky (2:5020/378@fidonet) for processing `binary_log`.

It is possible to use custom values for access_log, agent_log and binary_log files names to avoid troubles on 8.3 file systems. To change them, create a registry key

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\RIT\ARGUS\CurrentVersion\IniFile.ini

Names of String Values:

    access_log
    agent_log
    binary_log