Re: CRONOLOG: [help] OSX & Cronolog: Newbie

[Paul Willis <p@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> |/usr/sbin/cronolog /Library/Webserver/Documents/Logs/%Y/%m/test.log
>
> in the 'Access Log' field of my development site.
>
> restarted and... well nothing!
>
> Does anyone know if this is not correct? Am I meant to edit something 
> in my
> httpd.conf file? If so, which bit (OS X has two and has some pretty
> confusing instructions on what can and can't be changed manually!)
>
> Also, I tried to run 'man cronolog' but et a 'not found error', and 
> can't
> find any sign of cronolog in '/usr/locl/sbin/' or '/usr/local/bin/' so 
> feel
> something may not be happy...

Ours installed itself in /bin/

Assuming yours did too your log line needs to be...

|/bin/cronolog  /Library/Webserver/Documents/Logs/%Y/%m/test.log

We have pretty well abandoned the Apple GUI tools but if you want to 
continue to use them you need to turn logging off for your site (yes I 
know it sounds wierd) and then manually edit the 
httpd_macosxserver.conf fle.

Look for the following line in the virtual host...

CustomLog "/dev/null" "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b"

And add an extra line so it looks like this...

CustomLog "/dev/null" "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b"
CustomLog "|/bin/cronolog  
/Library/Webserver/Documents/Logs/%Y/%m/test.log"

This actually explained in section 7 at the top of the 
httpd_macosxserver.conf file.

The trouble with this method is that if you have a lot of virtual hosts 
you get a separate cronolog process running for each site.

We ended up creating one 'overall' log for all our virtual hosts. If 
you want to do this I can give more instructions.

> Been running os 8/9 based websrvers for many years, so not totally new 
> to
> the whole business.. just struggling with the switch to X.

We went through the same thing - stick with it, its worth it in the end.

Paul