Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3/4 Stats

["Jonathan Michaelson" <michaelsonjd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maurice,

> When running this script, is produces stats with loginformation beginning
> today. I guess that comes because logrotate runs at night.
>
> Is it possible to have it produce stats once in a month, for a whole month
> completely?

The problem may be that your logs are being rotated because of its size,
rather than monthly. Here is an explaination for one of those, the web logs:

You need to check through the logrotate configuration files in
/etc/logrotate.d (probably the filed called apache) and look for the section
starting for /var/log/httpd/access. You need to remove any size rotation
directive and replace it with monthly. E.g. our /etc/logrotate.d/apache
directive reads (allow for possible line wraps):

/var/log/httpd/access {
    prerotate
        /usr/local/sbin/split_logs web < /var/log/httpd/access
    endscript
    compress
    rotate 3
    monthly
    missingok
    postrotate
        /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
}

This rotates the access log for the whole server on the first day of the
month (monthly) and keeps 3 copies (rotate 3) of the resultant archive which
is a compressed file (compress).

Running it once a month might be tricky becuase you would need to ensure
that the job runs before the log is rotated. It would be simpler to rewrite
it to run on, say, the 2nd of every month and to copy the most recent
compressed archive, uncompress it, use the result as input then delete those
temporary files.

We run it daily to keep track of usage so that we can advise our customers
if they're approaching or likely to breach their data transfer limits and to
check them at the end of the month.

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Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson
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