Since the call to logger sends it to the local syslog daemon, it is by default logged to the local host. Your configuration of syslog will keep it local, send it elsewhere or both. I "send it elsewhere". As someone pointed out, a busy web server will make big logs fast. An added advantage of using syslog is that you can rotate logs without restarting the Apache processes. Another advantage is that I have multiple, load balanced, servers all sending to the same syslog server. This allows me a single log to process instead of multiple logs. The next issue would be running stat reports on "the site" from multiple files that would need to be merged or processed individually and the results combined (the latter seems to be beyond my company's choice of analysis products). Bill Burge *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/29/2002 at 8:25 AM Roy wrote: >Bill and George.. thanks for your replies. > >Will these solutions allow the logs to still go to the local server as >well? If not how? > > >Roy > > >Roy, > >You should be able to do something like this within your httpd.conf: > >CustomLog "| /usr/bin/logger -t 'httpd' " combined > >George > > >: >>Actually I use (something like): >> >>TransferLog "| /usr/bin/logger -p local7.info " >> >>And the format that gets used is the most recent (to that line) >>"LogFormat" as TransferLog doesn't take a format parameter. >> >>Bill Burge > > > > > > >___________________________________ >If we don't change our basic perceptions >of life, as a species we will perish in >servitude to institutional greed. > >Please read Vote or Die at >www.threeparty.org > >"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," >a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, >his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest >-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. >This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our >personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. >Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our >circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of >nature in its beauty. " >- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private >For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
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