Linux: February 2007 Archives
As part of my ongoing efforts to make sites on this server run faster and cause me fewer headaches I've implemented Apache log rotation using Cronolog.
Apache2 does support log rotation, but Cronolog gives you more options, which is why I chose it.
On Ubuntu all you need to do is:
apt-get install cronolog
To see which version you have type:
cronolog -V
The version I have is 1.6.2, which was released 5 years ago! I guess that means "it just works".
Unfortunately the documentation on the site isn't as extensive as I would have liked, but adding a daily log rotation in Apache2 can be done by editing the log entry in the vhost config to read as follows:
CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /pathtologs/logs/%Y/%m/%d/access.log" combined
This will create a subdirectory for each year, month and day. As the site I was concerned about, IrishBlogs.info, produces rather large log files I was more concerned about getting them down to a managable size. I am not worried about processing them at this juncture.
Hopefully this will help :)
If anyone wants the slides from my talk yesterday afternoon here they are:
Open Office format
PDF format
I'm scheduled to give a talk in the University of Limerick this afternoon as part of Skynet's conference - Skycon.
Even though I've given plenty of talks in the past I am always incredibly tense beforehand.
This afternoon I'll be talking about email filtering on a large scale :)
As there are quite a few hardcore geeks onsite today I'm hoping they'll all have gone to the other talk!!
Suse Linux is "on the road" with a date in Dublin organised for 27th March:
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