http://diymacserver.com/forum/ DIYMacServer » Tag: Log - Recent Posts en Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:07:19 +0000 http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/awstats#post-224 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:33:11 +0000 Richard 224@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ <p>jstubbs Escribió:</p><blockquote>Don't know your country, but it's a long holiday weekend and I'll be leaving Wednesday evening and won't be back till Sunday. Sorry.</blockquote><br /> OT: Why should you be sorry for having a long weekend off, I envy you for that ;-) http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/awstats#post-222 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:48:13 +0000 jstubbs 222@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ <p>kbeeby Escribió:</p><blockquote>Is there a how to compile AWStats for OS X you could share</blockquote><br /> <br /> I'll have to get back to you on this. I lost my install notes when the disk crashed on my home machine before I printed them (shoots self in foot). However, I just checked the mail server and the .bash_history file still covers the AWStats install. Also, I dumped the AWStats configure script output to a text file, so I should be able to reconstruct what I did. <br /> <br /> IIRC, it wasn't a difficult install and the install script does most of the heavy lifting. The PITA was modifying the config file to read mail log instead of web logs. A lot of hunting for lines to change, though there is a template to tell you what to change. Depending on your usage, you can have both mail and web config files to access both log files.<br /> <br /> Don't know your country, but it's a long holiday weekend and I'll be leaving Wednesday evening and won't be back till Sunday. Sorry. http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/awstats#post-218 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:02:00 +0000 kbeeby 218@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Is there a how to compile AWStats for OS X you could share?<br /> <br /> Keith http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/awstats#post-129 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:18:46 +0000 jstubbs 129@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Just got done installing AWStats. Primary usage is for web logs, but it can be switched to analyzing mail logs. Installation was pretty straight forward. Of course, I only had about a half days worth of mail log, but the graphs look pretty. ;-)<br /> <br /> Still got one problem to solve, getting the update function to run before rotating mail logs. Might have to un-modify periodic's daily command.<br /> <br /> Will advise which course I take. http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/mail-log-rotation#post-105 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:40:38 +0000 jstubbs 105@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ <p>richard5 Escribió:</p><blockquote>Jeff, be carefull. if I remember correctly the original cron files might be overwritten by a software update. It's better to copy the original and put the additional jobs there. <br /> <br /> Don't have any evidence to support this at the moment. Will dig deeper...</blockquote><br /> <br /> I agree, modifying any Apple supplied process is a known risk. This hint has worked for me from Jaguar (10.2) on, and has survived the minor updates along the way.<br /> <br /> With Tiger, I was worried about cron moving under launchd's control, but it seems to not have been affected.<br /> <br /> I guess you could create another cron process, that would only run Monday to Saturday, to rotate the mail log. Then the weekly periodic script would rotate the log on Sundays. http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/mail-log-rotation#post-92 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:30:03 +0000 Richard 92@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Jeff, be carefull. if I remember correctly the original cron files might be overwritten by a software update. It's better to copy the original and put the additional jobs there. <br /> <br /> Don't have any evidence to support this at the moment. Will dig deeper... http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/mail-log-rotation#post-91 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:58:14 +0000 jstubbs 91@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ Here's one hint that I use to keep my mail logs under control. The way the periodic commands are set up, the mail logs are only rotated on a weekly basis. In my case, that resulted in extremely _large_ mail logs. Taking a hint from <em>serversolutions</em> at the afp548.com site, I modified my periodic commands.<br /> <br /> Open /private/etc/periodic/daily/500.daily in your favorite text editor. Look at line 97.<br /> <p><code>for i in system.log; do</code></p><br /> Modify this line to read:<br /> <p><code>for i in system.log mail.log; do</code></p><br /> Then save the file.<br /> <br /> Then open /private/etc/periodic/weekly500.weekly. Line 35 is the one that needs modified, change it from<br /> <p><code>for i in <a href="http://ftp.log" rel="nofollow">http://ftp.log</a> lookupd.log lpr.log mail.log netinfo.log hwmond.log ipfw.log ppp.log secure.log; do</code></p>to<br /> <p><code>for i in <a href="http://ftp.log" rel="nofollow">http://ftp.log</a> lookupd.log lpr.log netinfo.log hwmond.log ipfw.log ppp.log secure.log; do</code></p><br /> Now your mail log will be rotated on a daily basis.<br /> <br /> I keep meaning to write a shell script to automatically move the oldest mail log to a central archive location, but never get around to it. It could actually be embedded in the 500.daily file to save the oldest log daily. http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/where-should-the-apache-logfiles-reside#post-50 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:43:27 +0000 Richard 50@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ As talked about in <a href="http://switch.richard5.net/2006/08/21/rotating-your-apache-logfiles/">the blogpost</a> about my discoveries and the rotating logfiles script. Please let me know your thoughts on this. I would think you need to put the logfiles in /var/log as any unix sysadmin will tell you.