Re: GLUG: gzipping logs

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Wayne Pascoe skrywe:

> Hi all...
> 
> Apache (and other things) output to a log file... Near as I know, this is
> just a pipe. Is there any way to automagically gzip this as it happens?
> Ie, write data to gzip which writes data to end of log file?

If you have logrotate installed you can edit /etc/logrotate.d/apache.
For instance: You can set the rotation interval and then gzip the oldest
log before mailing it to sysadmin.

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