Incorrect log being generated?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 02:35:39AM +1300, Ryan Brown wrote:

> Using the following,
> 
>     log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]  '
>                     '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
>                     '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"';
> 
>     access_log  logs/access.log  main;
> 
> 
> Notice the extra "-"'s..
> 
> ::ffff:173.175.52.41 - - [29/Dec/2011:07:29:57 -0600]  "GET /text.txt
> HTTP/1.1" 200 14457 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0"
> ::ffff:83.108.225.71 - - [29/Dec/2011:07:29:57 -0600]  "GET /text.txt
> HTTP/1.1" 200 130968 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; nb-NO;
> rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110628 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.18"
> ::ffff:31.47.127.66 - - [29/Dec/2011:07:29:57 -0600]  "-" 400 0 "-" "-"
> ::ffff:81.184.25.193 - - [29/Dec/2011:07:29:57 -0600]  "GET /text.txtt
> HTTP/1.1" 200 130968 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0"
> ::ffff:211.128.160.26 - - [29/Dec/2011:07:29:57 -0600]  "GET /text.txt
> HTTP/1.1" 200 5068 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0"
> ::ffff:61.5.222.223 - - [29/Dec/2011:07:29:57 -0600]  "GET /text.txt
> HTTP/1.1" 200 130968 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64;
> rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1"
> ::ffff:81.182.240.97 - - [29/Dec/2011:07:29:57 -0600]  "GET /text.txt
> HTTP/1.1" 200 130968 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0"
> 
> 
> (nginx compiled)
> nginx version: nginx/1.1.11
> built by gcc 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)
> TLS SNI support enabled
> configure arguments:
> --with-openssl=/root/openssl-1.0.1-stable-SNAP-20111218
> --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-ipv6
> --without-mail_pop3_module --without-mail_imap_module
> --without-mail_smtp_module --without-http_charset_module
> --without-http_ssi_module --without-http_userid_module
> --without-http_autoindex_module --without-http_rewrite_module
> --without-http_limit_zone_module --without-http_limit_req_module
> 
> nginx config: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=k3PWs45H
> 
> Restarting nginx hasn't helped either. Have I disabled a module or
> haven't enabled a module I needed?

It's not clear what you are consider to be wrong.  Everything 
looks fine and perfectly correct from here.

Maxim Dounin