---
name: "gruftistats"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gruftistats"
version: "0.2.4-3.1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gruftistats"
---

# gruftistats(1)

generates statistics and quotes from an IRC log

## NAME

gruftistats - generates statistics and quotes from an IRC log

## SYNOPSIS

**gruftistats** -r *conffile* -p *formatfile logfile* \[*logfiles...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **gruftistats** program.

**gruftistats** is a program to read IRC logs. It produces a web page, with various statistics and quotes from the channel. Output is to stdout.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

- **-r conffile**

  Specifies the configuration file for gruftistats. See **conffile** below.

- **-p formatfile**

  Specifies the filename containing the regexps to match against the text in the **logfile.**

- **logfile** \[**logfiles**\]

  Specifies the file or files for gruftistats to parse.

## CONFFILE

The sections in the **conffile** are in the form **option=value**

- **channame**

  Name of the channel being parsed

- **myname**

  Name of the person to show on the html as creating the stats page

- **myemail**

  Email address of **myname** to show on the outputted page

- **page\_bg**

  Background Color for the page

- **page\_text**

  common text color

- **page\_text\_contrast**

  contrasting text color

- **date\_bg**

  background color under the daily bar graphs

- **table\_index\_bg**

  background color for table index column

- **table\_nick\_bg**

  background color for nicks column in the tables

- **table\_2\_bg**

  background color for the second column in the tables

- **table\_3\_bg**

  background color for the third column in the tables

- **table\_head\_nick**

  background color for the first column heading

- **table\_head\_other**

  background color for the remaining column headings

- **statwords**

  comma seperated list of words to look for, for the "Big Numbers" table. One is chosen at random

- **botname, botname2, botname3**

  Nicks to ignore in the stats.

- **picext**

  Extension (filetype) of the bargraph images. (eg. ".png")

- **credits**

  Extra text to append to the credits table at the bottom of the page

- **min\_quote\_len**

  Minimum quote length to randomly choose from

- **max\_quote\_len**

  Maximum quote length to randomly choose from

- **font1**

  Font to use for common text

- **font2**

  Font to use for the nicknames

- **font3**

  Font for miscellanious data text

- **header**

  Extra text to prepend to the HTML document just after the opening \<body\> tag

## AUTHOR

gruftistats was written by Andy Kempling \<aurikan@hotmail.com\> and Colin Phipps \<cphipps@doomworld.com\>.

This manual page was written by Aaron Haviland \<orion@tribble.dyndns.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).