[NBLUG/talk] Apache2 + cronolog problems

[Rob Orsini]

On May 16, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Augie Schwer wrote:

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> On 5/15/05, Rob Orsini <orsini at sonic.net> wrote:
>> i'm trying to get a little more organized about my access logs and 
>> have
>> them in directories like: [logs]/2005/May/15/access.log and can't seem
>> to get it cooking.
>> as a test, my CustomLog directive for my vhost looks like this:
>> <vhost...>
>> CustomLog "|/www/sbin/cronolog /var/log/www/orsini.us/%Y/bob" combined
>> </vhost>
>> and attempting to restart apache gives:
>> "unable to start piped log program '/www/sbin/cronolog
>> /var/log/www/orsini.us/%Y/bob': No such file or directory
>> Unable to open logs"
>> i've tried opening up file/directory permissions all with no effect.
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> Well that all looks good from the documentation:
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> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_log_config.html
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> Check out this guys examples; maybe they will help:
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> http://builder.com.com/5100-6372-5092424.html
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> Otherwise su to the user that httpd runs as and try and run the script.

Yeah, I ran something like this:

echo "bla bla bla" | cronolog ./%Y/test.log

as 'nobody' in the access log base dir and it worked fine. Still not 
sure what's up. I'll bang on Google some more, or just wait for my 
stupid mistake to present itself.

thanks,
Rob