Re: Apache 2.2, rotatelogs.exe, and Windows

["Mark A. Craig" <mark.a.craig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nothing?  No one has ever used rotatelogs.exe?  Well, surely all you pros out 
there are rotating your companies' logs somehow... what and how are you doing 
it, and is it something I can use?

Mark

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Apache 2.2, rotatelogs.exe, and Windows
From: Mark A. Craig <mark.a.craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, September 13, 2007 04:19:22 PM

> I want to use rotatelogs.exe to archive my logs with Apache 2.2 running 
> in Windows 2000.  WHen I try to configure it the server fails to start 
> and bitches about Unicode characters on line 1 of httpd.conf that aren't 
> actually there.  I've read the docs repeatedly, but it's not entirely 
> explicit about how to implement it, esp. under Windows.
>
>    LogFormat "%a/%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" 
> \"%{User-Agent}i\"" ip-host-combined
>
>    # don't log (RSS) requests from FeedBurner
>    SetEnvIfNoCase Remote_Host "fetch.feedburner.com" dontlog
>    # don't log MSN search bots
>    SetEnvIfNoCase Remote_Host ".+\.search.live.com" dontlog
>    # don't log Yahoo! search bots
>    SetEnvIfNoCase Remote_Host ".+\.crawl.yahoo.net" dontlog
>    # don't log Google search bots
>    SetEnvIfNoCase Remote_Host ".+\.googlebot.com" dontlog
>    SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "^/robots\.txt$" dontlog
>    SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "^/favicon\.ico$" dontlog
>
>    CustomLog logs/access_ip-host-combined.log ip-host-combined env=!dontlog
>    #CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs 
> logs/access_ip-host-combined.%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S.log 2592000 -480" 
> ip-host-combined env=!dontlog
>
> Do I add a customlog pipe to rotatelogs IN ADDITION to existing log 
> directives, or are they meant to replace the existing?  This is one of 
> the things the docs fail to specify.  Another issue: what if I want an 
> archived file of the form access_yyyy_mm-dd.LOG, as opposed to the 
> example in the docs which shows the date-stamp BEING the extension?  
> Does the parsing of rotatelogs allow such a variant?
>
> Has anyone experimented with rotatelogs enough to know the answers to 
> these questions?
>
> Mark

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