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

[nvarney@xxxxxx]

> If you have logrotate setup to gzip the logs, you need to setup two
> subreports
> for each set of logs for summary to work properly.

I don't see what do you mean.

> If you are not zipping the logs, you can just use a wild card in the
> logfile
> name in the summary config to get all of your logs. Everytime you logs
> get
> rotated, summary will figure out which are the new files and adjust
> accordingly.
>
> DownURL: ftp://webserver.domain.com/logsfolder/logfile.log*
>
> This will get logfile.log, logfile.log.1, logfile.log.2 etc.. And will
> work
> fine as long as you do not delete the logfiles off of your summary server.


That's how I configured Summary.
But Summary don't keep all downloaded logs, file are overwriten due to checksum
fail

I will surely find another way to rotate logs on the server with date related
names.

Nicolas
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