12-18-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by silicate
so as long as inside the cron.daily/logrotate file there is this line: /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
and the cron daemon is running, then it should be working fine.
what I have is :
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf 2>&1 | tee $TMPF
but the fact is that I still have only one log file there, but there should be a couple of rotated log files right? as I made the configuration a couple of days ago.
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sarg-reports
SARG-REPORTS(1) General Commands Manual SARG-REPORTS(1)
NAME
sarg-reports - Daily/Weekly/Monthly squid usage reports creation tool
SYNOPSIS
sarg-reports [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the sarg-reports command.
sarg-reports is a script written to automate the SARG (a powerful squid log analyzer) reports and log management. Sarg it self, provide to
end user a generic interface to create reports based on squid access log (begin of log to current date). sarg-reports is useful because it
allow you to easly create and manage Daily, Weekly and Monthly reports.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
manual
Create Manual report
today Create Today report
daily Create Daily report
weekly Create Weely report
monthly
Create Monthly report
CRONTAB
If you want the reports can be generated automatically insert the following lines (the today report creation time depend mostly of your
sarg server load average, tune it):
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
00 08-18/1 * * * sarg-reports today
00 00 * * * sarg-reports daily
00 01 * * 1 sarg-reports weekly
30 02 1 * * sarg-reports monthly
REMEMBER: if you use logrotate, configure it to rotate the logs within MONTHLY basis, AFTER sarg-reports created the monthly html report.
VARIABLES
Check before using the sarg-reports that the following variables are set to file /etc/sarg/sarg.conf
SARG
The sarg executable location
CONFIG
The sarg main configuration file location
HTMLOUT
Location where will be saved the reports
PAGETITLE
The title of main index page
LOGOIMG
Image logo to view in main index page
LOGOLINK
HTTP web page link of logo
DAILY
Word 'daily' translation, translate it to your language
WEEKLY
Word 'weekly' translation, translate it to your language
MONTHLY
Word 'monthly' translation, translate it to your language
EXCLUDELOG1
Exclude text from cron emails (normally, sarg, during cron activity, if it don't find any valid records,
EXCLUDELOG2
It will output an error message (usually on 'today' reports). I don't want to be warned by email about this, so, i wrote the 'text'
that will be never logged. This is useful to receive email of real problems only.
AUTHOR
sarg-reports was written by Ugo Viti <ugo.viti@initzero.it>
This manual page was written by Juan Angulo Moreno <juan@apuntale.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
may 17, 2008 SARG-REPORTS(1)