Re: logresolve

[Maarten Vink <vink@interstroom.nl>]

Dan MacNeil wrote:
> Right now it is sometimes taking longer than 24 hours to run reports 
> (analog) on our apache logs.
>
> Does anyone have experience/opinions on putting logresolve into the 
> picture ?
>
> How do you move the resolved log into the place of the unresolved one 
> without stopping apache for long ?
>
> maybe approximately:
>
>     cd $RIGHT_DIR
>     apachectl stop
>     mv combined.log combined.log.tobe.resolved
>     apachectl start
>     logresolve < combined.log.tobe.resolved > combined.log.resolved
>     apachectl stop
>     cat combined.log >> combined.log.resolved
>     mv combined.log.resolved combined.log
>     apachectl start

As far as I know, apache will continue writing to a logfile if it's moved to 
another location on the same filesystem; you can then use "apachectl graceful" 
to have apache open new logfiles.

Regards,

Maarten Vink