Rotate and mail access logs

spiffytech · 02-08-2006, 01:49 PM

My webhosting company had a client request that we mail her the weekly access log. We created a script to do this, which also kept the past fopur weeks of logs.

Quote:

#!/bin/bash

LOGDIR="/var/log/httpd/www.continentalresources.com"
WORKDIR="/home/clients/client/www.client.com/htdocs/accesslog"

cd $WORKDIR

# Rotate the zip files save up to 4 weeks
# rm -f $WORKDIR/accesslog4.zip
# mv $WORKDIR/accesslogs3.zip $WORKDIR/accesslogs4.zip
# mv $WORKDIR/accesslogs2.zip $WORKDIR/accesslogs3.zip
# mv $WORKDIR/accesslogs.zip $WORKDIR/accesslogs2.zip

# Concatenate the access log files
# and put the day names in.
# Name the concatenated file "access.txt"
cat $LOGDIR/access_log.7 > access.txt
cat $LOGDIR/access_log.6 >> access.txt
cat $LOGDIR/access_log.5 >> access.txt
cat $LOGDIR/access_log.4 >> access.txt
cat $LOGDIR/access_log.3 >> access.txt
cat $LOGDIR/access_log.2 >> access.txt
cat $LOGDIR/access_log.1 >> access.txt

# Form the name
ZIPNAME="accesslog_"`date -d '7 days ago' +%Y%m%d`"-"`date -d '1 days ago' +%Y%m%d`".zip"

# Zip access.txt
zip -jq $ZIPNAME access.txt
rm -f access.txt

# Move the zip file to the ConRes
# document-root folder for web serving
# mv accesslogs.zip $WORKDIR

# Change the zip file permissions
# for web serving
chmod 2777 $WORKDIR/$ZIPNAME
chown client:ftp $ZIPNAME

# Send out a text file providing
# the download link for the last
# four (4) weeks of access files
sed 's/ZIPNAME/'$ZIPNAME'/' /opt/scripts/client_accesslog.txt | mail -s "Web Site Access Logs"
client_email_address

Centinul · 02-09-2006, 09:25 AM

Do you have a question or are you just sharing this information? Just as a side note there is software out there that does this called logrotate. I use it on my firewall machine and it works marvelously. You can give individual log files parameters as to how you would like to deal with them, for example you can mail the logs as well. I recommend giving this a shot.

spiffytech · 02-10-2006, 07:42 AM

I was merely sharing my work. While writing scripts, I often wish that more people had written about what I'm trying to do, or that there was a script alreadyt out there, so I thought I'd help out anyone else who may need what I made.