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cenocre
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 Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:57 am Post subject: Archiving Logs |
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Is there any way to have automated daily or weekly log archiving?
If not, this is a big missing feature, so please Aprelium add log archiving. We really need it. |
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aprelium
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: Archiving Logs |
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cenocre,
You can do that by an exetrnal script which has to be executed daily or weekly (using Windows Task Scheduler or Cron on Unix-like system). The script will stop Abyss Web Server, archive the logs, compress them (or do whatever required), and restart Abyss Web Server.
Such a script is listed in http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=39369#39369 .
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cenocre
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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I'm on a Mac so I quess I'll have to write a cron script. The hassle is having rewrite the script every time I add a domain to the dozens we already host.
In the reply in 2005, you said, "A log rotation system will be added in a future release." Is that still in the plans? I hope so. I would like for it to be able to save the archived logs to a separate directory.
It would be great as it is a standard feature in all the other server software we run. We archive the logs daily to a separate server machine that just runs the log analysis software for a bunch of servers and the archived logs are saved there automatically just by setting the path when setting up a virtual host. No external programs or scripts needed. |
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aprelium
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| cenocre wrote: | | I'm on a Mac so I quess I'll have to write a cron script. The hassle is having rewrite the script every time I add a domain to the dozens we already host. |
You could use wildcards to make things automatic. For example, if log files are stored in /X/Y/access-site1.log and /X/Y/access-site2.log, you can use the following commands (Shell commands) to perform a set of actions on these files:
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# for each log file
for f in /X/Y/access-*.log; do
# move the log file to /X/archive
mv $f /X/archive
# Compress it
gzip -9 /X/archive/$f
done
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This way, whenever you add a new host, set its log file to be named /X/Y/access-whatever.log and the script will take care of it automatically.
| Quote: | | In the reply in 2005, you said, "A log rotation system will be added in a future release." Is that still in the plans? I hope so. I would like for it to be able to save the archived logs to a separate directory. |
It is still in our plans. But it has been postponed because some other features generated more requests by our users so they got higher priority.
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cenocre
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: Can path in script use a variable? |
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Thanks for the script idea; however, I don't see that that solution would work in this situation as there is not a common path to the logs or the archives. Each log has a unique path.
Each site has a log folder so that clients can download their logs. And, the logs are also stored in a unique folder for each site on the machine that runs the log analysis software.
Since the path is based on the domain name perhaps there would be a way to fill a variable, but my shell scripting skills are rudimentary.
A path looks like this within each site root folder with the log folder matching the domain name: /logs/CLIENTDOMAIN.COM/logfile
And like this for other server: /Volumes/logserver/logs/CLIENTDOMAIN.COM/logfile |
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aprelium
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: Can path in script use a variable? |
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| cenocre wrote: | Since the path is based on the domain name perhaps there would be a way to fill a variable, but my shell scripting skills are rudimentary.
A path looks like this within each site root folder with the log folder matching the domain name: /logs/CLIENTDOMAIN.COM/logfile
And like this for other server: /Volumes/logserver/logs/CLIENTDOMAIN.COM/logfile |
The script could be changed in that case to:
| Code: | # for each log file
for f in /logs/*/logfile; do
# copy the log file to the other server
cp $f /Volumes/logserver$f
# Delete the original
rm $f
done |
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