Joe Hammerman <jhammerman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > If we replaced Sed with Cat, I'm a little confused as to what we would be catting; there's a stream coming in, right? > > To your second question - yes, logging is fully functional with sudo > > To your final question - no, even with a sed command that performs no actions, no logging information is generated. > > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Poirier > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:03 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: mod_log_config issue > >> We have an issue with mod_log_config; specifically we are trying to pipe log output through Sed before it goes to Cronolog. The result is that we get no output whatsoever. >> >> CustomLog "| /bin/sed s/[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\}\\\.[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\}\\\.[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\}\\\.[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\},\\\ //g | /usr/bin/sudo -u VEsvc /usr/sbin/cronolog --period=1hours /mnt/export/www/logs/beacon/%Y%m%d/%H/survey_log" combined env=survey_log >> >> ErrorLog "| /bin/sed s/[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\}\\\.[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\}\\\.[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\}\\\.[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\},\\\ //g | /usr/bin/sudo -u VEsvc /usr/sbin/cronolog --period=1hours /mnt/export/www/logs/beacon/%Y%m%d/%H/error_log" >> >> We have also experimented with writing a wrapper script that performs all three of the above functions - the result is the same. >> > What's the simplest case that doesn't work? What if you take out the > whole 'sed' command and just use /bin/cat? Does invoking cronolog with > sudo work when not receiving input piped from another command? Does it > work with a simpler sed script? Okay, then you're saying this gives you logging: CustomLog "| /usr/bin/sudo -u VEsvc /usr/sbin/cronolog --period=1hours /mnt/export/www/logs/beacon/%Y%m%d/%H/survey_log" combined env=survey_log but this doesn't: CustomLog "| /bin/sed | /usr/bin/sudo -u VEsvc /usr/sbin/cronolog --period=1hours /mnt/export/www/logs/beacon/%Y%m%d/%H/survey_log" combined env=survey_log How about this: CustomLog "| /bin/cat | /usr/bin/sudo -u VEsvc /usr/sbin/cronolog --period=1hours /mnt/export/www/logs/beacon/%Y%m%d/%H/survey_log" combined env=survey_log "cat" with no arguments just copies stdin to stdout, so we can tell if sed is the problem, or the piping. Also, I would think if putting the piped command directly in the log config is the problem, then replacing it with a wrapper script ought to work. I assume your script looked like: #!/bin/sh /bin/sed s/[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\}\\\.[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\}\\\.[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\}\\\.[0-9]\\\{1,3\\\},\\\ //g | /usr/bin/sudo -u VEsvc /usr/sbin/cronolog --period=1hours /mnt/export/www/logs/beacon/%Y%m%d/%H/survey_log (maybe with one level of backslashes removed), was marked executable, and the full path was configured: CustomLog "| /path/to/wrapper/script" combined env=survey_log You might try a simpler script: #!/bin/sh /bin/cat >>/path/to/logfile again just to rule out something funny in the sed/sudo/cronolog part as opposed to Apache. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx