Daily/Weekly W3C Logging Options
 

Any chance of having an option to break up the logging files to either daily or weekly logs - the current way of just putting them in one massive file is meaning i've got to (briefly) take the server down so i can archive the logs and run stats on them.

Or am I missing something? Is there already a way to do this?

Thanks.

If you are on Win32 find someone who is using Apache on Win32 and grab a copy of rotatelog.exe. You can use this in the same way that Apache does.

If you are on unix/linux you should try a shell script such as:

code:


#!/bin/sh

gzip -c /usr/local/shoutcast/sc_w3c.log > /usr/local/shoutcast/sc_w3c-`date '+%Y%m%d'`.log.gz

You can then call this script whenever you want via cron.

-L"k"

How exactly does rotatelog.exe work then??

directly from the command line output from rotatelogs (with small SC edits):

Usage: rotatelogs.exe <logfile> <rotation time in seconds> [offset minutes from UTC] or <rotation size in megabytes>

Config like this:

W3CLog="|rotatelogs.exe /some/where 86400"

or

W3CLog="|rotatelogs.exe /some/where 5M"

The generated name will be /some/where.nnnn where nnnn is the system time at which the log nominally starts (N.B. if using a rotation time, the time will always be a multiple of the rotation time, so you can synchronize cron scripts with it). At the end of each rotation time or when the file size is reached a new log is started.

Like I said before though - this is all guesstimation...

-L"k"