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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:21:39 +0800
From:      chas <panda@skinnyhippo.com>
To:        Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: managing huge log files.
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990914002139.00adfe90@mail.skinnyhippo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909131708230.63402-100000@dominik.saargate. de>
References:  <fc.3b9aca006acf51be3b9aca00be51cf6a.196754@saargate.de>

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At 05:11 PM 9/13/99 +0200, Dominik Brettnacher wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, panda@skinnyhippo.com wrote:
>
>> One of the websites I manage went ballistic 2 weeks
>> ago and has been producing 500+ MB of Apache logs 
>> each day. May I ask how people are managing their 
>> log files on high-traffic sites ?  
>
>Use a log analyzer that brings its own history support with it

That's what I was looking for ... 

> (e.g.
>Webalizer)

.. and that looks like just the ticket - very impressive.

> - then you can rotate your logs daily or hourly while making
>recent statistics from it.
>
>Don't forget to give Apache a HUP, or better a USR1, so that it creates
>new log files when the old ones are moved to another directory.

Thank you very much.

chas



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