[Orca-users] RE: Apache access_log is a symbolic link

[dtitzer at servicebench.com]

The "cronolog" utility is configured into the Apache config file as a piped
command instead of a path to the log file. The cronolog utility watches the
size of the log file, the date/time, etc., and rolls over to a new file.
Before, it was necessary to kill Apache, move the log, then restart it. 
 
Cronolog is a more elegant solution, but it breaks orcallator.se's file
watching. I was able to fix the problem temporarily by restarting
orcallator, but unless cronolog is configured to roll over by date and time
at a particular time (and uses file size instead), I'll be unable to
schedule an orcallator restart to continue capturing log information when
the symbolic link target changes.
 
-dat
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Keiko.Y [mailto:Keiko_Yoshikawa at cssd.mei.co.jp]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:22 AM
To: orca-users at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [orca-users] Apache access_log is a symbolic link


Hi, David
 
Well, If I took your problem mean you wanted to set an access_log file that
had been set symbolic link. 
Is that right?
 
I don't know how to solve in this case exactly, but how about setting a 
path that you had set for symbolic link.
 
I mean, like following sample;
 
If you have set log file:
/usr/local/apache/access_log 
 
And also you had set symbolic link:
/usr/local/ -> /home1/hoge/
 
then, I recommend you to try now is (in start_orcallator)
log file /home1/hoge/apache/access_log
 
If you had tried this already, I'm sorry.
But I hope you can do it!
 
  Sincerely
 
Keiko.Y

-----Original Message-----
From: dtitzer at servicebench.com [mailto:dtitzer at servicebench.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 4:39 AM
To: orca-users at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [orca-users] Apache access_log is a symbolic link



In an effort to roll over Apache logs, my colleague here installed and
configured "cronolog." Now, I'm not able to get orcallator.se to see those
log files. My graphs don't generate properly, and I'm guessing it has
something to do with the symbolic link. Is there some way around this?

--

David A. Titzer
Systems Administrator
ServiceBench
dtitzer at servicebench.com
410-290-3674



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