RE: Does Apache Support Piped Logs On Windows Platform

[Frank Misa <frankmisa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks very much Sander.... I think ;)
I was starting to suspect that.

That's bad news for me.
I hope the issue is fixed soon -- I'll have to work around this somehow.

Re:ModSecurity....
I'm not sure what API they're using for their logging ?
But the Perl script that I'm trying to pipe to just transfers log file content to a central location for processing. From remote machines to a common log analysis machine.  In this way multiple Apache/ModSecurity instances can be monitored from a common/central "console".....

Do you have any relevant Bug numbers ?
The Bugs I found were related to Apache shutdown errors -- I can't even start Apache when trying to pipe log files on Windows.

Just curious...

Thanks
Frank

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> From: sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:38:39 -0700
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Does Apache Support Piped Logs On Windows Platform
> 
> Frank,
> 
> On Jun 28, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Frank Misa wrote:
> 
> > I've seen many references to Apache issues with logging to piped  
> > processes on the forums;  but no clear answer on whether this is  
> > supported or not.
> > Can someone here please confirm -- Yes/No...
> > Do the latest versions of Apache 2.0.x  OR Apache 2.2.x support  
> > piped logs on Windows ?
> 
> Piped logs are currently effectively broken on Windows, due to the  
> way we do or don't pass valid file descriptors to the called process  
> for stdout and stderr.  Others more knowledgeable than myself can  
> elucidate on this more eloquently than I can.
> 
> We're trying to fix it, but that hasn't happened so far.  If you want  
> to rotate your log files, the best approach is currently to rename  
> them and then send your httpd service a restart signal using
> 
> \path\to\httpd -n Apache2 -k restart
> 
> with the name of the Windows Service as argument to the -n  
> parameter.  You can script this in any language that pleases you, and  
> run it periodically in the Windows Scripting Host.
> 
> > >>SecAuditLog "|C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe C:/fmm/ApacheSSL224/bin/modsec- 
> > auditlog-collector.pl"
> 
> I haven't reviewed mod_security to this extent but does it use the  
> Apache logging APIs?  Or does it do its own thing?
> 
> S.
> 
> -- 
> Sander Temme
> sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx
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