Hi, Thanks for the response , I will try that . What I would like to know is whether one can combine the gzip usage with rotatelogs utility so that as the logs are written in gzipped format they also get rotated as per the time/size specified .
Thanks in advance. -Paras On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de> wrote: > On 21.01.2009 07:09, Paras Fadte wrote: >> >> Hi , >> >> Does something like following work in Apache/2.0.55 ? >> >> CustomLog "|/bin/gzip -c >>>> >>>> /home/mydir/apache/logs/mydomain.com-access_log.gz" combined >> >> In errorlog it says : >> >> piped log program '/bin/gzip -c >>>> >>>> /home/mydir/apache/logs/mydomain.com-access_log.gz' failed >> >> unexpectedly >> gzip:>>/home/mydir/apache/logs/mydomain.com-access_log.gz: No such >> file or directory >> >> >> What could be the issue here ? > > It does work for me with Apache 2.2.x. Be sure to add whitespace before and > after ">>" (although that wasn't necessary for 2.2.x). > > If it doesn't work for 2.0, you can use the following workaround, that > should do it: create gzip.sh (executable shell script) with the content: > > #!/bin/sh > gzip -c >> $1 > > and use "|/path/to/gzip.sh mylogfile" in the CustomLog. > > Caution: it's possible to loose log lines when restarting or stopping the > web server, because gzip buffers data and it might be implementation > dependent, whether gzip flushes them when signaled to stop. My tests show, > that there will be some information lost. > > I think this discussion belongs to the users list. When proceeding the > discussion there, also mention which OS you are using. > > Regards, > > Rainer > >
