Re: [cobalt-users] Newbie help: Controlling log files

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Anne Shroeder wrote:

> I used to manage IIS web server on NT, and am new to this Cobalt business.
> On IIS, you could control specifically what was logged in the raw log files,
> e.g. if you want to exclude logging of everything in the /images folder, you
> could seriously reduce the size of your log files.  Is there any way to do
> this in CObalt?  (RaQ3i)
> 
> Second question  -- again, in IIS you can tell the server to accumulate your
> log files on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.  Cobalt seems to log
> activiity for one day, zip it up, log activity for the next day on the same
> file.  The next day it is overwritten -- that means that any time you run a
> report (I'm running Webtrends) you get a report for two days.  No good.  I'd
> like to either have the log files named unique names so that I can run a
> week's or month's worth of reports, or to accumulate (but only if I can
> accomplish (1), removing logging of graphics files).
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Anne

Regarding IIS: I wonder if it's possible for it to log the new .printer
bug that allows remote control over your system. To my best understandment
it's not possible ;p

For your qusetion, at least with regards to reports, there's Webalizer
which can do incremental statistics before the logs are rotated on the
daily rotation procedure at 4:08AM, at any case. Search this mailing list
archive for Webalizer+Incremental

a .pkg for webalizer (raq3+4) is at:
http://cobalt-aid.sourceforge.net/files/Features/Intel/Webalizer2.pkg

HTH,

- shimi.