Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:02:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web Statistics break up program. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905202300420.37469-100000@arnold.neland.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990518195705.24618B-100000@roble2.roble.com>
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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Roger Marquis wrote:
> > > This will create an archived logfile (http.site.May_1999) and erase
> > > the original without needing to kill -1 the httpd.
> > >
> > > #!/bin/sh -
> > > LOGDIR=/var/log
> > > ARCDIR=/var/log/oldlogs
> > > DAY=`date | awk '{ OFS="_" ;print $2,$6}' `
> > > for log in $LOGDIR/http* ; do
> > > cp $log $ARCDIR/${log}.${DAY}
> > > chmod 440 $ARCDIR/${log}.${DAY}
> > > cp /dev/null $log
> > > done
> >
> > Egads!!
> > That's a pretty vicious race condition there, you'll lose records on busy
> > servers.
>
> In theory perhaps, in reality it doesn't. I've never seen this algorithm
> fail, even when used on log files that grow by several megabytes per day.
>
How do you know? How do you know if you are throwing some lines away which
happened between you started copying, and you nulled the logfile?
Leif
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