Hi Apache users, devs,
I have recently switched an infra from straight logging to files to
piped logs (using compresslog to compress the logs before they are
written out -- http://repo.or.cz/w/compresslog.git/ ).
Turns out there is a gotcha.
When logging to files, it is harmless to have
[ Using piped logs with gzip is rather painful. Here is what I came up
with to improve the user experience. Getting the scripts right so
that no data was lost in normal operation is non-trivial, so I thought
I'd share. ]
=compresslog README=
Save a ton of disk IO (or SAN traffic) in your