Thanks for the response. Noticed that graceful apache restart tends to flush the buffer to log when gzip is used . Can you please shed some light on combining/using gzip and rotatelogs utility together ?
-Paras On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de> wrote: > On 21.01.2009 13:01, Paras Fadte wrote: >> >> I tried this and It creates "mydomain.com-access_log.gz" but doesn't >> seem to update it. > > That's the buffering of gzip I mentioned. > > Run /path/to/httpd/bin/ab -n 50000 -c 10 -k http://myserver:myport/ > > and you'll see data arriving. > > Regards, > > Rainer > >> 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 >
