[WEB4LIB] Re: HTTP access and error logs

[John Creech]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Edward Spodick, HKUST Library, 2358-6743 wrote:

> Well, we still have all of ours going back to May 1995.  At first I
> planned to trash them after 'x' years, depending on our records
> management protocols.  But they are still useful for log analysis and
> historical study - especially with the improvements in analysis
> software.  As to space, that is not a big problem, and some analyzers
> (such as Analog) are able to process them in gzipped format. 

Thanks for writing, Ed - and thanks to Dan Lester, Julie James, and Jackie
Loop, also.  We've kept our logs since the server came up in '95, and run
AccessWatch and Wusage to check them daily.  And we zip our old ones, too,
as you do.  So we wouldn't be saving much space to do differently.  I'll
leave well enough alone.

John "neatness counts" Creech, CWU Library