Re: perl program to log apache access.log with mass virtual hosting

[David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>]

On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 08:07, Cristi Banciu wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using apache with mass virtual hosting. I need to keep separate log 
> files for each vhosts into something like thist
> /var/log/httpd/$vhost.without.www/$year/$month/$day/access.log
> 
> I have found a little perl script that says it does that. Unfortunatelly 
> it does not working, apache error.log saying something like this:
> piped log program '/usr/local/sbin/logger' failed unexpectedly
> 
> Here is the perl script
> ###start program ###

Your script must _not_ start with the line above. It should start with
the line below. It wont be run as a perl script otherwise.

> #!/usr/bin/perl


Try the function below without the parenthesis. 

> sub writeLog(){
> my $logDir = shift @_;
> my $type = shift @_;
> if( ! -d $logDir ) {
> `mkdir -p $logDir`;
> }

That got it to work for me.

-davidc