Re: [Summary-Talk] Using Summary with logs rotated by logrotate

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/30/03 7:58 AM nvarney@edt.fr (nvarney@edt.fr) wrote:

>How can I use summary on logs that are rotated by logrotate ?
>
>On my web server, http logs are rotated by logrotate with produce 
>access_log,
>access_log.1, ...
>Summary is configured to download logs from the server.
>
>After each rotation, I lose old log information. Is there a tip to avoid 
>losing old logs not maintained by logrotation, and keep them on the
>Summary machine ?

If you run Summary in incremental mode it will be able to report on logs 
that are no longer present. This requires Summary Plus or SP and isn't 
really what you asked for.

You could also stop using logrotate, and use rotatelogs instead, but then 
they would accumulate on the server (unless you manually delete the old 
logs).

There isn't really any good, general purpose, solution to this problem 
that I know of. Personally, I manually rename the downloaded logs once 
ever month or so, to keep a full set.

Jason

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