[ Using piped logs with gzip is rather painful. Here is what I came up with to improve the "user experience". Getting the scripts right so that no data was lost in normal operation is non-trivial, so I thought I'd share. ] =compresslog README= Save a ton of disk IO (or SAN traffic) in your webserver setups, not losing any log entries and retaining ease of debugging and diagnostics. Piped logs to gzip unfortunately loses significant amounts of log data upon stop and restart; and prevents use of tail, which complicates diagnostics of live systems. With compresslog: * Use piped logs to compress your Apache logs with zlib compression. * Resulting files are valid gzip files. * The compression process adds significant buffering. * Buffering does not lose data in the event of stops and restarts. * Includes ztail utility -- equivalent to tail -n 10 -f yourlog which flushes buffers appropriately. Find it at: http://repo.or.cz/w/compresslog.git/ Patches, comments and beers welcome. cheers, m ps: I am subscribed to digest -- please CC me in replies :-) -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first ~ http://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Martin_Langhoff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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