Re: Sort logfiles at rotation time

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> 2009/11/9 Kai Schaetzl <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:45:35 +0000:
>>
>>> Because within apache, you can't necessarily guarantees strict
>>> chronological order of log entries.  If, for example, php takes a
>>> couple of seconds to run, the request could come a couple of seconds
>>> before the log entry is written
>> Is it possible that everyone misunderstood your question?
>> You want to sort the *content* of the log files, so the content is in
>> chronological order?
> 
> Precisely so.
> 
>> I do not see much value in this.
> 
> My client requires it, so there is value for him :)
> 
>> But you may try mergelog for this purpose.
>> http://mergelog.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I'll check it out.

There is also a perl script called logresolvemerge.pl that is part of 
the awstats program that may work - although I'm not sure if either of 
these will adjust out-of-order source files.  They are intended to merge 
  already sorted files into one for analyzers that aren't bright enough 
to do it themselves.  Analog complains about possible duplication but 
doesn't seem to choke if you just give it a big list of files.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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