[Orca-users] Re: Rotating web logs

[reitsmac at denison.edu]

Since orcallator.se is recording the information I would expect that
you would have to run stop_orcallator/start_orcallator after each
rotation.

I have not been able to get it to work just by changing the find_times
parameter.

--- In orca-users at egroups.com, Blair Zajac <blair at a...> wrote:
> Are you using Orcallator.se or some other recording tool?
>
> You can use the find_times configuration file parameter to tell Orca
> when it should look for new filenames:
>
> From Orca's manual:
>
> =item B<find_times> I<hours:minutes> [I<hours:minutes> ...]
>
> The B<find_times> parameter is used to tell Orca when to go and find
> new files.  This particularly useful when new input data files are
> created at midnight.  In this case, something like this may work:
>
>   # Find files at the following times:
>   #    0:10 to pick up new orcallator files for the new day.
>   #    1:00 to pick up late comer orcallator files for the new day.
>   #    6:00 to pick up new files before the working day.
>   #   12:00 to pick up new files during the working day.
>   #   19:00 to pick up new files after the working day.
>   find_times 0:10 1:00 6:00 12:00 19:00
>
> If you add too many different times to find_times, then Orca may
spend
> a large amount of time finding files, so it's best just to have it
> find files when you know that they will appear.
>
> By default, files are only searched for when Orca starts up.
>
> Regards,
> Blair
>
> Jeremy Wilson wrote:
> >
> > I'm setting up orca to watch the system and the web logs, but at
midnight
> > my system rotates the weblogs and orca stops recording the
information.
> >
> > The rotator works by moving the log, then gziping it, then
restarting the
> > web server to re-init the log files.
> >
> > How can I make orca see the new file?
> >
> > --
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