Re: [Summary-Talk] Multiple Log File Locations?

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/9/04 10:42 PM Lyn (lynlist@nowdata.com) wrote:

>Summary is running in incremental mode for us.
>
>The log file must be compressed on the web server before Summary 
>picks it up, right?

That is one good way to deal with things, but it isn't the only possible 
way to get it working.

>Our problem is that the incremental log files (hundreds of them) have 
>long ago been moved off from the production web server and reside in 
>their uncompressed state on the Summary server drive - which is 
>quickly running out of space. I'd like to compress the lot of them, 
>and still have Summary pull the 'live' log file from the production 
>server for comparison against the local compressed logs.

The logs that are currently being downloaded from the server must either 
be compressed or not compressed on both the server and in Summary's Logs 
folder. Plus, if you change this now you need to be very careful that 
Summary doesn't ever see both an uncompressed and a compressed copy of 
the same log file.

The place you can most easily make a difference is to take the logs which 
are no longer on the server out of Summary's Logs folder, compress them, 
and keep them around just in case. Since you are in incremental mode, 
Summary will remember them from before even after they are gone. You 
could just delete them, but it is nice to keep old logs around as long as 
possible. If they are currently not compressed and you compress them 
after removing them from Summary, you should have plenty of room left 
afterwards and not need to worry about this again for quite a while.

Summary doesn't currently have a true log archiving capability. You need 
to arrange for log compression and rotation on your own, outside of 
Summary. It would be nice if Summary could compress downloaded log files. 
I will add that to the wish list.

Jason

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