Re: [Summary-Talk] Summary 2.x

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/5/03 2:06 PM Nitai @ ComputerOil (nitai@computeroil.com) wrote:

>We are at the moment setting up a new server and want to run Summary on 
>the same machine, so Log files don†t need to be stored in two places.
>(If that is any smart?).

That approach is nice, but it works either way.

>Anyhow I just got two questions:
>
>1. If we run Summary on the same machine as our Webserver, can we start up
>Summary during boot time? With a startup script or alike. Like this I wont
>have to login to the machine.

Yes, see the FAQ <http://summary.net/manual/faq.html#startup>.

>2. We have many virtual hosts now, therefore we bought Summary SP. All are
>configured and have their own directories in the Log folder of Summary. 
>The best is now to compress the log files and then put them into those
>Virtual hosts directories so Summary can read them. Is it ok for us to
>leave all the stuffed log files in there? Meaning I have a directories
>called "domain" in there we have log1.gz, log2.gz, etc for this domain.
>Does Summary only read the latest one?

That depends on how you want to setup Summary. If you run in incremental 
mode you can get reports over all time and Summary will only read the 
recent log files. But if you only want reports on the last month or two, 
leaving the logs in will slow things down somewhat.

>3. Thinking of it, is it possible to run Summary on a separate machine and
>have it download only the *.gz files each time? Like
>ftp.domain.com/logs/domain/*.gz.

Yes.

>4. does anybody have some sort of a script (crontab) for automatically 
>gzip the archived log files?

If you are using Linux/Sun/FreeBSD there are many different log archiving 
utilities that will do this. Logrotate is commonly used and comes with 
most distributions. Some people seem to like cronolog 
<http://www.cronolog.org/> and there are many others. On other platforms 
there are other similar programs.

Jason

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