[analog-help] Merging log files

[Mick Burrell]

On 2 May 2007, at 0:11, Aengus wrote:


>
>> From your initial description, I imagine that the .gz files are the
> "rotated" logs - they are "done" and don't overlap. You could consider
> the .log files as "temporary", constantly being updated until the  
> end of
> the day, when it is gzipped, and a new .log is created. In that
> situation, you only want to archive the .gz files.
>
> That's a fairly common scenario for managing web server logs - I'd be
> surprised if your server is using .log and .gz files any differently.

Thank you - I had a lack of understanding of how the log files were  
processed by the server. So in the case of a server which rotates the  
files on a weekly basis, I just download log.1.gz every week. If I  
happen to miss it one week, then next week it will have been rotated  
to log.2.gz. I think!

I then create an archive of the log.1.gz files to run through Analog.  
Is that broadly correct?


-- 
Mick Burrell