From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Wed Apr 2 06:07:44 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:07:44 -0700 Subject: [buug] Re: Pearson Education User Group Program- March '08 Message-ID: <1207141664.47f38520091e7@webmail.rawbw.com> Book interests? Let me know before 2008-04-04 if you're specifically interested in these: -- Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours by Brad Dayley; www.informit.com/title/067232959X -- C++ GUI Programming with Qt4, 2nd Edition by Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield; www.informit.com/title/0132354160 and if so, I'll pass that information along. references/excerpts: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:33:13 -0400 Subject: Pearson Education User Group Program- March '08 Hello User Group Leaders, We hope you're enjoying the Pearson Education User Group Program, featuring an ongoing 35% member discount, a monthly contest and a quarterly UG Program newsletter (sent out last week). For reference, all program details are available here: www.informit.com/usergroupwelcome As your Linux/open source liaison, I'm writing to tell you about the new books you will soon receive for your LUG. These include: - Fedora Unleashed, 2008 Edition by Andrew Hudson and Paul Hudson; www.informit.com/title/0672329778 - Essential Linux Device Drivers by Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran ; www.informit.com/title/0132396556 We have additional new titles which I'd be happy to ship you, but you must first reply to me with your specific picks: -- Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours by Brad Dayley; www.informit.com/title/067232959X -- C++ GUI Programming with Qt4, 2nd Edition by Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield; www.informit.com/title/0132354160 As always, please ask your members to return their support with feedback-good, bad or indifferent! We encourage UG members to post their opinions on Amazon.com, BN.com, Slashdot.org, or any relevant technical site that accepts user content. 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From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Fri Apr 11 06:31:51 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:31:51 -0700 Subject: [buug] Eric Allman at BALUG 2008-04-15!, and other BALUG News Message-ID: <1207920711.47ff6847af56e@webmail.rawbw.com> Eric Allman at BALUG 2008-04-15!, and other BALUG News Contents: * Eric Allman at BALUG 2008-04-15! * Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates and speakers * Contacts, etc. ------------------------------ For BALUG[0]'s 2008-04-15 meeting we are proud to present: Eric Allman, on: Email Evolving Internet email is in a process of rapid evolution. Besides the obvious things, such as spam and malware, many other technology trends are having an impact. These include mobile devices, new messaging technologies, social networking, changing legal requirements, the rise of Software as a Service and Service Oriented Architectures, and an unstable underpinning of the network itself. Not surprisingly, many of these same forces do or will affect other parts of the network. This talk will describe these evolutionary pressures, point out some of the unexpected consequences of our attempts to adapt to these pressures, and make some dire predictions for the future. Generous time will be allotted to Q&A. Eric Allman[1] created and authored sendmail[2], spearheads sendmail.org[3], and is Chief Science Officer[4] and co-founder of Sendmail, Inc.[5] Sendmail remains the most popular mail transfer agent (MTA) on the Internet. Eric co-authored the draft specification for DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)[6]. Among his work and contributions, Eric was also Chief Programmer on the INGRES Relational Database Management System and an early contributor to Berkeley UNIX, authoring syslog, tset, the troff -me macros, and trek in addition to sendmail. If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org Why RSVP? Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Subscribe to our (low volume) Announce list[7] to be sure and be notified of our upcoming events. 0. http://www.balug.org/ 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Allman 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail 3. http://www.sendmail.org/ 4. http://www.sendmail.com/sm/company/management/ 5. http://www.sendmail.com/ 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dkim 7. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists ------------------------------ Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates[8] and speakers (see our web page[8] for more details): 2008-05-20 Jeremy Allison[9] 2008-06-17 Andrew Morton[10] 2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, CTO, Creative Commons[11] 2008-08-19 (speaker confirmation pending) 2008-09-16 Ian Murdock, founder of Debian[12] Subscribe to our (quite low volume) Announce list[7] to be sure and be notified of our upcoming events. 7. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists 8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Meetings%20(upcoming) 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Allison 10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_%28computer_programmer%29 11. http://creativecommons.org/ 12. http://www.debian.org/ ------------------------------ Contacting BALUG: http://www.new.balug.org/#Contact Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org From bill.honeycutt at gmail.com Sat Apr 12 22:15:53 2008 From: bill.honeycutt at gmail.com (Wm. F. Honeycutt) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:15:53 -0700 Subject: [buug] Consolidating access logs from Apache cluster Message-ID: <87acd5770804122215g5491e19bj93c949f18646339d@mail.gmail.com> I'm looking for a "best practices" approach to consolidating web logs from a small (2 host) apache cluster. It would be nice to write all access and error log entries into a consolidated directory. Thanks in advance, Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From itz at buug.org Sat Apr 12 23:16:42 2008 From: itz at buug.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:16:42 -0700 Subject: [buug] Consolidating access logs from Apache cluster In-Reply-To: <87acd5770804122215g5491e19bj93c949f18646339d@mail.gmail.com> (Wm. F. Honeycutt's message of "Sat\, 12 Apr 2008 22\:15\:53 -0700") References: <87acd5770804122215g5491e19bj93c949f18646339d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <87prsui8j9.fsf@kuku.localdomain> Bill> I'm looking for a "best practices" approach to consolidating web Bill> logs from a small (2 host) apache cluster. It would be nice to Bill> write all access and error log entries into a consolidated Bill> directory. One somewhat baroque and home-baked way that comes to mind is to write an expect(1) script that tails (tail -f) each of the logfiles either directly (for local files) or over ssh/rsh (for remote) and echoes from whichever channel had latest input. Because tail -f could lose some messages you could try to write a very simple replacement for this case using the Linux specific epoll syscall. (I happen to know Linux is your platform, on BSD it would be kqueue). -- His stride expressed the man's pride and self-confidence and his eyes revealed his honest simplicity. His appearance indicated that his belly was of far greater importance than his head. Naguib Mahfouz, _Midaq Alley_ From atporter at primate.net Sun Apr 13 00:41:01 2008 From: atporter at primate.net (Aaron Porter) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:41:01 -0700 Subject: [buug] Consolidating access logs from Apache cluster In-Reply-To: <87acd5770804122215g5491e19bj93c949f18646339d@mail.gmail.com> References: <87acd5770804122215g5491e19bj93c949f18646339d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080413074101.GA15855@primate.net> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:15:53PM -0700, Wm. F. Honeycutt wrote: > I'm looking for a "best practices" approach to consolidating web logs from > a small (2 host) apache cluster. It would be nice to write all access and > error log entries into a consolidated directory. Well, you could set apache up to log via cronolog and rotate its logs hourly, then pull them onto a central host (scp, rsync, nfs, what have you). Merging them into a unified log would also be possible. Another alternative would be to use something like multitail, a third would be to have apache log to syslog[1]. 1: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/12/httpd-syslog.html From bill.honeycutt at gmail.com Mon Apr 14 10:06:55 2008 From: bill.honeycutt at gmail.com (Wm. F. Honeycutt) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:06:55 -0700 Subject: [buug] Consolidating access logs from Apache cluster In-Reply-To: <20080413074101.GA15855@primate.net> References: <87acd5770804122215g5491e19bj93c949f18646339d@mail.gmail.com> <20080413074101.GA15855@primate.net> Message-ID: <87acd5770804141006w6c3a4df3kaf4b3e7baa3d125a@mail.gmail.com> Thanks for the input! Syslog was my first preference...it covers all the sins of merging disparate logs or leaving them in a discontinuous state. I don't think there's much danger of losing log content on an ethernet. Coincidentally, Aaron, I had the same link bookmarked :-) Bill On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Aaron Porter wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:15:53PM -0700, Wm. F. Honeycutt wrote: > > I'm looking for a "best practices" approach to consolidating web logs > from > > a small (2 host) apache cluster. It would be nice to write all > access and > > error log entries into a consolidated directory. > > Well, you could set apache up to log via cronolog and rotate its > logs hourly, then pull them onto a central host (scp, rsync, nfs, what > have you). Merging them into a unified log would also be possible. > Another alternative would be to use something like multitail, a > third would be to have apache log to syslog[1]. > > > 1: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/12/httpd-syslog.html > _______________________________________________ > Buug mailing list > Buug at weak.org > http://www.weak.org/mailman/listinfo/buug > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Mon Apr 14 20:28:57 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:28:57 -0700 Subject: [buug] Consolidating access logs from Apache cluster In-Reply-To: <87acd5770804122215g5491e19bj93c949f18646339d@mail.gmail.com> References: <87acd5770804122215g5491e19bj93c949f18646339d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1208230137.480420f91dfa5@webmail.rawbw.com> syslog, or syslog-ng can be an excellent solution. syslog-ng can solve many of the risks and problems/issues of syslog, e.g. syslog-ng can do the transfers securely, it can do more assured transfer of the logs (such as queue them until they are successfully received by the receiving server). Quoting "Wm. F. Honeycutt" : > I'm looking for a "best practices" approach to consolidating web logs from > a > small (2 host) apache cluster. It would be nice to write all access and > error log entries into a consolidated directory. From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Wed Apr 16 07:42:29 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:42:29 -0700 Subject: [buug] More books for BUUG from the Pearson Education User Group Program Message-ID: <1208356949.48061055547dd@webmail.rawbw.com> More books for BUUG from the Pearson Education User Group Program These apparently arrived this past week, and I should be bringing them to tomorrow's BUUG meeting: _Fedora Unleashed_, 2008 Edition by Andrew Hudson and Paul Hudson; http://www.informit.com/title/0672329778 _Essential Linux Device Drivers_ by Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran http://www.informit.com/title/0132396556 http://www.informit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=b09c1d41-08e9-4f18-8fe6-53ef3392ad66 references/excerpts: http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2008-April/003012.html From buug at weak.org Fri Apr 25 11:17:48 2008 From: buug at weak.org (VIAGRA ® Official Site - Viva VIAGRA) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:17:48 -0700 Subject: [buug] Dear buug@weak.org April 85% 0FF Message-ID: <20080425094205.5721.qmail@xpsp2-de634c3b7> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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