Re: [Summary-Talk] WebSTAR V logging advice

[Karl Schroll <schroll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This procedure does not work for me with symbolic links of 
directories.  I have not tried it for aliases as I want to avoid them 
on UNIX.  For each of my host directories, I went to WS_Admin/Logs 
(which is what WebStar creates), and I made a symbolic link of the 
Logs directory, and dragged that to the Summary folder that I created 
for each domain, in the Summary Logs directory.  The path resolves 
fine from the finder if you click on the directory that is the 
symbolic link; it opens to show the log files in the "real" 
directory.  But when I process logs, I get the following, which is 
typical of all logs:

Check log header: coldhollow/logs symlink
Error opening log file!
Can't read log, skipping.

What am I doing wrong?


>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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Regards,

Karl Schroll
Digital Frontier
802-253-8612
http://www.digitalfrontier.com
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