[users@httpd] CustomLog Help ? Somebody?

[Dave Morrow <da...@autodata.net>]

Hi all.  
 
I have an issue which, I am sure someone out there has encountered in
the past.  
 
I have a website, whose authors have written some of the URLs in a
format which contains characters which are not well liked by my log
analysis tools (Deepmetrix Livestats).
 
I would like to simply strip off the bad characters using a CustomLog
directive by piping to sed and then piping to rotatelogs, but cannot
seem to make it work.
 
CustomLog "|/bin/sed 's/;variable/?variable' | /usr/sbin/rotatelogs
/etc/httpd/logs/mysite.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 5M" combined
 
The result is the entire line not getting logged.
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
David Morrow
Technical Systems Lead
Autodata Solutions Company
David.Morrow@Autodata.net
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[users@httpd] Re: CustomLog Help ? Somebody?

[Joost de Heer <sa...@xs4all.nl>]

> CustomLog "|/bin/sed 's/;variable/?variable' | /usr/sbin/rotatelogs
> /etc/httpd/logs/mysite.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 5M" combined

- Instead of writing to a sed pipe, parsing the logfile before sending it
to Livestats is much better IMO.
- Does this command run fine from the command line? I.e. does 'echo
some_string|/bin/sed 's/;variable/?variable' | /usr/sbin/rotatelogs
/etc/httpd/logs/mysite.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 5M' work fine?

Joost


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