[Kolab-devel] Log management of Kolab from a system administrator view

[Marcus Hüwe]

Hi,

On 2007-06-25 12:26:53 +0200, Alain Spineux wrote:
> On 6/24/07, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) <lists at infosecurity.ch> wrote:
> I use multitail in full screen, with CTRL-O to clean up the screen, very
> nice tool.
> For example:
> 
> # multitail /kolab/var/postfix/log/postfix.log
> /kolab/var/imapd/log/imapd.log
> 
> 
> I suggest, for kolab 2.2 goals, to put all the logs in only one
> >directory (es: /kolab/logs)
> 
> 
> -1
> 
> and automatically rotate and archive them
> >with a directory structure organized for each day (es:
> >/kolab/logs/2007/06/20/daemon_name_subname.log).
> 
> 
> ???? you said in the previous sentence : "... to put all the logs in only
> one directory"
> And now in a lot of directories !!!
>
No. I think you get him wrong. He wants to have the current logs in one dir
like /kolab/var/log/. At the end of each day he wants to rotate and archive
them into a subdir like $YEAR/$MONTH/$DATE.

> This kind of structure is nice for something happening once a day, like a
> backup, not for
> a continuous process.
> 
> My only wish about log is to make them available through the web interface.
> 
Hmm this won't be easy because the webserver user no read access to any
logfile (for a good reason!). Such a feature won't be trivial to implement
IMHO.


Marcus