[users@httpd] CustomLog pipe help

["Dave Morrow" <david.morrow@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all. 

 

I have an issue which, I am sure someone out there has encountered in the past. 

 

I have a website, whose authors have written some of the URLs in a format which contains characters which are not well liked by my log analysis tools (Deepmetrix Livestats).

 

I would like to simply strip off the bad characters using a CustomLog directive by piping to sed and then piping to rotatelogs, but cannot seem to make it work.

 

CustomLog "|/bin/sed 's/;variable/?variable' | /usr/sbin/rotatelogs /etc/httpd/logs/mysite.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 5M" combined

 

The result is the entire line not getting logged.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

David Morrow

Technical Systems Lead

Autodata Solutions Company

David.Morrow@xxxxxxxxxxxx

http://www.autodatasolutions.com

 

Tel: (519) 963-3020

Fax: (519) 451-6615

 

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