[ale] Apache log files Sorry not what I was looking for

[jj at spiderentertainment.com (jj at spiderentertainment.com)]

Well, I just want to remove the copying of logfiles, besides we are
expected to grow, so then I guess I would have to do it every 3 hours
and then every hour umm. Besides we use Webtrends and it does not handle
well multiple files.
Joining them is also not an option, chews up CPU.

Jim Williams wrote:

> Would it be possible to rotate them more often...grab
> them before they get to large....say every 6 hours or
> something like that.  You probably thought of that
> though and can enlighten me as to why this is not an
> option.
>
> --- jj at spiderentertainment.com wrote:
> > I should have included this in my original message,
> > sorry for all the
> > confusion, but logrotate, copy the files is becoming
> > not an option. We
> > are talking about multiple log files that are 5GB+
> > it takes about 20 min to copy the log files, and
> > chews up my CPU.
> >
> > I'm looking towards a much better solution, where it
> > does not chew up
> > CPU and the bandwidth of the raid controllers.
> >
> > From what I gather, the best option would be:
> > While apache is running
> > move the log files(whith in the same partition)
> > restart apache.
> > But this is a very rough way of achieving what I
> > need.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> >
> >
>
> =====
> Jim Williams
> Software Developer, ICC/GRSoftware
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