Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:52:31 -0500 From: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com> To: "Michel Weenink" <Michel@Weenink.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re[2]: newsyslog/rotatelog Message-ID: <002101c1c3be$80a42c50$0d00a8c0@alexus> References: <000701c1c30d$b50ec600$faa0b542@noc> <3C832FD4.D7B631A1@cs.umu.se> <001101c1c3b2$0782eb60$0d00a8c0@alexus> <3C83CD26.F36026B2@cs.umu.se> <000901c1c3b6$f1011a10$0d00a8c0@alexus> <8834995732.20020304211718@Weenink.com>
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logs are too big.. can't allow apache to be down while taring logs that's why rotatelog/cronolog is good choice, i already figure out how to make cronolog to have symlink to current file (apparantly cronolog can do that:) so the only one thing i'm missin is compression.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel Weenink" <Michel@Weenink.com> To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:17 PM Subject: Re[2]: newsyslog/rotatelog > Hello alexus, > > What if you use some sort of monthly cron job that runs a shellscript > a little better than: > > apachectl stop > tar -zcvf /backup/accesslog`date`.tgz /path/to/httpd-access.log > cp dev/null /path/to/httpd-access.log > apachectl start > > Would that help? > > Kind regards, > > Michel > > > Monday, March 04, 2002, 8:58:23 PM, you wrote: > > a> hell no, i'm not going back to rotatelog:)) i'll stick with cronolog, i > a> think it can make same file i just can't figure out how to compress old > a> logs.. other then that i'm good to go.. > > a> ----- Original Message ----- > a> From: "Paul Everlund" <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> > a> To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com> > a> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > a> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:38 PM > a> Subject: Re: newsyslog/rotatelog > > > >> alexus wrote: > >> > > >> > can it compress old logs? and keep same file name of logs? so i > >> > can put webalizer in crontab and point in one directory? and same > >> > file which will never change? just like newsyslog does, old files > >> > renames and compresses and new file still there under same file- > >> > name. > >> > >> I guess it can't. Cronolog just organizes the log-files in a neat > >> way, with human readable dates. I guess you have read the web-page > >> and so you know it can't do all the things you are asking for. :-) > >> The only other thing I can come up with is to use rotatelogs and > >> write your own script for handling the compression, renaming and > >> so on, and then put that into crontab. :-) > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Paul > >> > > > a> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > a> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > -- > Michel Weenink - Phone: +31 24 3607 665 - ICQ: 21018820 > E-mail : Michel@Weenink.com - WWW: www.weenink.com > > I drink therefore I am twice > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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