Uwe Dippel wrote:
Could you please share your preferred methods to rotate the
/var/www/logs/, ?
Not the best way I am sure, but for 7 years now on servers that run
multiple virtual sites, all of them with their own logs and a few of
them getting a few millions hits a day, I simply use
cp access access.processing
echo -n > access
And then process my access.processing as I see fit, archive them in a
compress form after the fact, etc.
All done from a cronjob that obviously process each different log files
and yes may be I am loose one entry in the log files between the cp and
empty of it, but it works for me very well. The reason is that I simply
couldn't shutdown the server as there was way to much traffic and when
php and mysql is configure on it with some perl scripts for some stats,
simply doing a restarts wasn't good, but a stop was needed and wait for
a second or two at time was needed before doing the restart, or it
wasn't working.
So, your mileage may vary and I will sure not say it's the best or
proper way to do so, but it work and yes I am sure many will provide
plenty of argument against it, many of witch may well be strong
arguments, but it works for me in the end.
Is that really bad, I never really asked if that was so bad doing so.
So, I can't say. May be that would be the time to asked as well, but yes
the results of it is that I may loose a few records in the process. Will
that kill the validity of the stats, I don't think so, but you may see
it differently. Way to many manager argue as to what the stats mean in
the first place to even start to understand what difference it may mean
to have a few missing from it. (:>
Daniel
Daniel
