Re: [cobalt-users] virtual site logs

["Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)" <listonly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 10/1/02 1:03 PM, Thom LaCosta stated:

> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> 
>>> I think people mentioned in the past that they've changed the ownership of
>>> the logs so that it didn't count against the site quota. Check the archives.
>> 
>> Why shouldn't a client pay for storing his log files?
> 
> Well, one reason might be that the client doesn't want/like the
> "out of the soap box" stuff the Cobalt gives them.

But that's bucking the great blue way:( We all walk clock wise remember??
> 
> My clients are more impressed with weblog than the standard Sun/Cobalt
> Issued detergent.  It only needs to read the web.log
> 
> Of course, the RaQ makes use of some of the log files for the warning
> system on over the quota limits.
> 
> So. my question is more along the lines of:
> If I want to read only web.log
> and ??? files for the active monitor
> what files could I delete, per site, via cron?

I would like to see an answer on this.
> 
> I'm not sure how often active monitor runs.
> 
> The other alternative, form my perspective, is that I'd like a way to
> save the client space if they aren't using the Cobalt stats.

AWSTATS can pull from var/logs, thus eliminating the
home/sites/site?/logs/web.log

Again interesting point.
> 
> I'm trying to answer a client right now who wonders why with 5 megs in
> web space used, and no mail piling up, why the logs are taking up 12
> megs.
> 
> I tried telling her it was "The Cobalt Way", but she replied:
> "Little Grasshopper, I pay large dollars to get semantic obfuscation from
> my therapist, I don't expect it from my provider."

Winter is coming grasshopper. Remember the Ant.
> 
> Since she sends in her check every month, it never bounces, she doesn't
> spam nor ask too many questions, I though it might be nice to give her
> an answer that neither was cloudy not required her to wash her laundry as
> part of the discovery process.

Don't buck BLUE!!
> 
> Thom

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Dave Thurman
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