Re: [Summary-Talk] WebSTAR V logging advice

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/3/03 12:34 PM Karl Schroll (schroll@digitalfrontier.com) wrote:

>I would appreciate advice on setting up a painless routine for log 
>processing each month using WebStar V.  We have about 50 or so hosts, 
>and I have WebStar archiving logs the first of each month.  When it 
>rolls the logs, it appends the date to the log.  Thus, on the first 
>day of the month when I go to process logs, the symbolic links all 
>need to be re-created to reflect the new file name of the archive. 
>This is a pain.

You should make an alias to the folder that the logs are in, instead of 
directly to the individual log files. That way the file can change name, 
but Summary will still read everything in the folder.

Good Luck
Jason

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