[Web4lib] access and error logs

[Thomas Bennett]

I use webalizer on a nightly cron job to append to the webalizer statistics.  
There is another cron job that keeps up to 4 of the Apache's most current log 
files although webalizer only looks at the current log so I assume there is 
minimum lose when the current log file is archived before webalizer runs.  I 
have kept all webalizer reports since I started using webalizer some years 
ago because they don't take a whole lot of room.  webalizer only shows the 
past 12 months but months beyond the previous 12 can be viewed using the same 
syntax as any month within the past 12 months just change the year parameter 
in the URL.


Thomas



On Friday 29 February 2008 18:12, Sutherland, Michael wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I was looking for information on typical procedure for holding onto
> access and error logs for a web server and searched the web4lib archive.
> According to those posts from April of 2000, it looked as though
> respondents held onto those for quite some time (at least 5 years).  I'm
> wondering if that is still common practice to archive these logs? What
> is 'typical', if you will, practice for web server administrators to do
> with those logs and is there any documentation for that practice? I'm
> sure it's different for each library depending on your record management
> protocols, but I'm curious about common procedure for keeping this
> information.
>
> Thank you for your time and consideration,
> Michael
>
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> Michael Sutherland
> Web Services Librarian
> Montana State University Libraries
> P.O. Box 173320
> Bozeman, MT, USA 59717-3320
> Ph: (406) 994-6429
> msutherland at montana.edu
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