webalizer and logrotate

PowerMatt · 10-12-2004, 11:52 PM

Seems like a simple question, but I can't find an answer for it.

How does webalizer handle wildcards? For instance, my server runs webalizer on an hourly rotation and logrotate on a daily rotation. Can I get it to analyze both access_log and access_log.1 (the previous day's log) so that it doesn't miss any log entries from the previous hour before the rotation? For some reason there's nothing in the webalizer documentation on wildcards for the access log.

shubb · 10-13-2004, 11:42 AM

Have you checked out the history function of Webalizer. It keeps a history file from the previous times webalzer was run.

PowerMatt · 10-13-2004, 11:56 AM

It would seem that it's not missing anything. The way my log rotation works is that it adds a numbered extension of the rotated log file (access_log, access_log.1, access_log.2). So it would seem that this line in my webalizer.conf:

Code:

LogFile        /var/log/httpd/access_log

already acts like a wildcard by analyzing anything that begins with access_log. Would I be correct in that assumption?

shubb · 10-13-2004, 01:50 PM

I dont believe that is correct. It should only look at the exact file specified.

Do you have the line "HistoryName <filename>" uncommented?

PowerMatt · 10-13-2004, 03:22 PM

That I do:

Code:

HistoryName /var/lib/webalizer/webalizer.hist

shubb · 10-13-2004, 09:20 PM

Ok, so that is taking care of the log rotation. Every time webalizer runs, it puts data into that history file so that when you rotate the logs, it doesnt care that the old data is not there.

PowerMatt · 10-13-2004, 10:56 PM

Let me put this another way... I'm running a server on Fedora Core 2. Still mostly a default setup. One of the excpetions being that I changed webalizer to an hourly rotation on the hour. The logroate script is in the daily folder, which runs at 4:02 AM (default scheduled time). So the hourly webalizer run would be two minutes before the log rotation is supposed to occur. How would I get it to not miss that last two minutes before the log was rotated?

shubb · 10-13-2004, 11:53 PM

Well, I guess you could create a second webalizer script that will run after the log rotate and look at the file access_log.1, or whatever the file is that the file gets renamed to. Other than that I dont think that there is an automatic way to do it.

PowerMatt · 10-14-2004, 12:31 AM

That's an idea. Thanks, hadn't thought about doing that. I gathered that running them at the same time probably wouldn't be a good idea due to file locks.