How about running a merge? Someone on the Apache list mentioned that Multisort http://www.xach.com/multisort/ it's a nice tool for merging logs.Would help in archiving also: merge, then compress, then backup.
Ben Ricker Wellinx.com On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 07:13, neal wrote: > My ISP admin is setting up an app to consume and interperet my log files. > He asked if I can have Tomcat spit out a single log file rather than > breaking it up day by day but I am hesistent. To me it seems like a bad > idea. First, I guess depending upon how Tomcat appends the file, couldn't it > start to slow down as the file exponentially grows? Second, if there's any > bad data it could throw of the whole log history, not just a single day. > Third, if the file was to be damaged same thing. Fourth, it seems pruning > the old data wouldn't be as easy. > > But he seems to feel this would make setting up that app a lot easier. I > don't know. Does anyone have any opinion in this regard? > > Also, how do you have it write to a single file? Is there some timestamp > attribute I can set? I didn't see one? > > Thanks. > Neal > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
