# Empty reports

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/empty-reports/605>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [October 4, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/empty-reports/605 "2004-10-04T18:03:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Randolph\_Reitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@Randolph\_Reitz](https://community.zeek.org/u/Randolph_Reitz)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/empty-reports/605/1 "2004-10-04T18:03:51Z")

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I have bro version 0.9a6 running. I see impressive sizes for files in /usr/local/bro/logs.  
For example...  
[rreitz@gumshoe rreitz]$ ls -l /usr/local/bro/logs/\*04-10-03\*  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 88835 Oct 4 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/alarm.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 787345802 Oct 4 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/conn.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 3337706 Oct 4 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/ftp.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 4008666 Oct 4 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/http.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 28576 Oct 4 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/info.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 139345 Oct 4 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/notice.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 236 Oct 4 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/signatures.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 14411249 Oct 4 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/smtp.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 531 Oct 4 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/software.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 59967793 Oct 4 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/weird.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bro wheel 0 Oct 3 00:00 /usr/local/bro/logs/worm.gumshoe.04-10-03\_00.00.00

but the reports generated for 10/3 are empty.  
[rreitz@gumshoe rreitz]$ ls -lt /usr/local/bro/reports/local/  
total 26  
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1499 Oct 3 00:43 FNAL.1096781400.60653.rpt  
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1499 Oct 2 00:42 FNAL.1096695000.56628.rpt  
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1499 Oct 1 00:40 FNAL.1096608601.53259.rpt  
...

The report size of 1499 contains header/footer formatting only. For example...

Site Report for FNAL, from 2004/10/02 00:30:00 to 2004/10/03 00:30:00  
generated on Sun Oct 3 00:43:37 2004

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/empty-reports/605/2 "2022-05-06T15:37:12Z")

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