Re: [Summary-Talk] compressing logs

[John May <jmaymailing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MacGzip is applescriptable.  We wrote a rolling script for our 
machines to roll + .gz logs once a week.

	- John


>On 1/21/04 3:26 PM Karl Schroll (schroll@digitalfrontier.com) wrote:
>
>>I run WebStar V and my log files are all getting quite large.  I
>>would like a utility to compress the archives into gzip or something
>>else that Summary can read.  Is there any utility that will allow me
>>to do that on a regular schedule, such as right after Webstar rolls
>>the logs at the end of the month.
>
>Summary will read logs compressed with GZip, Zip, or BZip2.
>
>Most log archiving systems support log compression directly.
>Unfortunately the one that is built into WebSTAR does not, so you are
>going to need to find or write a script of some kind. GZip support is
>available from the command line in OS X (and Linux and Sun), using the
>gzip command, so it should be reasonably simple to setup a shell script
>run by cron that compresses the rotated log files. Alternative log
>archiving systems that are easier to use and which support compression
>and work with WebSTAR might exist, they did for WebSTAR 4.x, but I don't
>personally know of any for WebSTAR V.
>
>Jason
>
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>Jason@Summary.Net
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