Re: [cobalt-users] Stats - Raq4

[Alfredo <alfredo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> .
> Does the Raq4 produce individual access and error logs for each virtual site
> (which could then be accessed via a stats program) or am I restricted to the
> webalizer prog which as far as I can see spits out results from one big log
> file?

I'm familiar with Raq3 but I'm assuming it's applicable to the 4.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, Tim, Webalizer may be doing what you 
want as far as access logs are concerned. It reads the logs, creates 
a "stats" directory in each virtual site and then generates reports 
for that site that are accessible from a web browser. It does NOT, of 
course, log access -- it's just a program to read and organize log 
info.

By the way, although you can probably configure Apache to process 
logs for every site (mod_log_config would be the place, if I remember 
right), BUT I wouldn't. Every access and error log needs a file 
descriptor and Linux has a limit on how many of them you can have 
(256 I think). At about 50 or 60 sites, you run into the limit since 
file descriptors are used for other things like listen directives as 
well. You won't be able to have more than 50 sites or so before 
running into performance problems. You'll go nuts trying to figure 
out why your cgi programs stopped working and all that.

Right now, on the Raq3 at least, it processes the one access log and 
then splits the info into "logs" on every site -- very good solution, 
saves big time on descriptors.

As far as error log goes, I'm sure there must be a script or program 
that can handle that but I'm ignorant about what's out there for that 
purpose.

Alfredo
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