On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:57:50PM -0800, Chris W. Parker wrote: > Ben Yau <mailto:byau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > on Friday, January 09, 2004 12:17 PM said: > > > 1) keep the original log intact and provide copies to the users with > > only their relevant entries? > > > 3) provide the logs in real time > > Those two fit what I want. > > The whole reason I brought this up was because when I'm logged in under > a regular user (not root) and something goes wrong with the site I'm > working on I have to 'su -' and examine the logs and then 'exit' back. > It was just getting annoying. ;) > > > Alternatively you could probably write a much cleaner (and more > > thorough and less resource intensive ) script in Perl. If you need > > more pointers on this let me know > > This would be great but please don't trouble yourself over it. (I don't > really know anything about writing perl so any help would be great.) There is an alternative provided by apache itself: Use the SetEnvIf directive to set a variable depending a a regular expression over the URI, and set specific CustomLog directives to send the entries matching each variable to a different log file. Example: SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/\~user1/" user1 SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/\~user2/" user2 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
