[buug] Consolidating access logs from Apache cluster

[Wm. F. Honeycutt]

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 <atporter at primate.net> 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
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