Our approach is to run the logs to local disk, but also on an interval append the new log data to a per-day-per-server file in AFS.
-- Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216 > -----Original Message----- > From: Mitch Collinsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:20 PM > To: Blake Atkins > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Apache WWW Logs to AFS > > > > It's been a while, but when I did this the biggest problem > was that the web server did not fsync the log files, so > recent changes were not visible on AFS clients other than the > web server. Because of this, users who wanted to peruse the > logs wanted to be allowed to login to the server so they > could see them. > > That didn't seem like such a great idea, so I whipped up a > short program that ran continuously on the web server and did > basically: > > for (;;) { > fsync(fd); > sleep(interval); > } > > at reasonable intervals on the interesting log files. That > satisfied the log browsing crowd and was really the only > issue I can remember having to deal with. I don't recall any > problems with loss of data. Logs larger than the cache aren't > a problem unless you're using the arla client. > > -Mitch > > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Blake Atkins wrote: > > > All, > > > > I have a question about using an AFS server to collect > apache logs. If > > the > > logs grow larger than the client cache, what will happen? > How often will the > > logs be committed to the AFS server? If the webservers or > the AFS server > > crashes, will data be more at risk to loss than if they > were stored locally? > > Does anyone have any experience with this? > > > > Thanks very much, > > > > Blake Atkins > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenAFS-info mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/ope> nafs-info > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
